Massively parallelizable list-mode reconstruction using a Monte Carlo-based elliptical Gaussian model

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Sportelli, G ^a,b,c   Ortuno J E ^a,b   Vaquero, J J ^d,e   Desco, M ^d,e   Santos, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

GPU reconstruction; kernel model; list mode reconstruction; PET

Indexed keywords

3D MODELING; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CRYSTALS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNITS; HIGH-RESOLUTION PET CAMERAS; KERNEL MODELS; LIST-MODE RECONSTRUCTION; ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; PARALLELIZATION EFFICIENCY; PARALLELIZATION TECHNIQUES; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ACCELERATION; ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CRYSTAL; GEOMETRY; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE QUALITY; KERNEL METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PET SCANNER; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROCESSING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SPACE; THICKNESS; VELOCITY; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALIA;

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHMS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84872032645     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4771936     Document Type: Article

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