Simultaneous reconstruction of activity and attenuation in time-of-flight PET

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2224-2233

  Rezaei, Ahmadreza ^a   Defrise, Michel ^b   Bal, Girish ^c   Michel, Christian ^b   Conti, Maurizio ^c   Watson, Charles ^c   Nuyts, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity and attenuation cross talk; attenuation correction; joint estimation; maximum likelihood; time of flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ATTENUATION DISTRIBUTIONS; CROSS-TALK PROBLEM; EMISSION DATA; JOINT ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; PET DATA; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SIMULTANEOUS RECONSTRUCTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHIES; SINOGRAMS; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIME-OF-FLIGHT PET;

ALGORITHMS; CROSSTALK; ESTIMATION; FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; THORAX;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX;

EID: 84870499610     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2212719     Document Type: Article

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