A sinogram warping strategy for pre-reconstruction 4D PET optimization

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 54, Issue 2-3, 2016, Pages 535-546

  Gianoli, Chiara ^a,b,c   Riboldi, Marco ^a,d   Fontana, Giulia ^d   Kurz, Christopher ^b,c   Parodi, Katia ^b,c   Baroni, Guido ^a,d  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d Centro Nazionale Adroterapia Oncologica CNAO   (Italy)

Author keywords

4D positron emission tomography; 4D MLEM algorithm; Count statistics optimization; Motion compensation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MOTION ANALYSIS; MOTION COMPENSATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

DEFORMATION FIELD; MLEM ALGORITHMS; MOTION MODELING; NOVEL STRATEGIES; PET RECONSTRUCTION; SINOGRAM DOMAIN; STATE OF THE ART; STATISTICS OPTIMIZATION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAPHRAGM; FOUR DIMENSIONAL POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MODEL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THORAX WALL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOTION; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84961208322     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: 17410444     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-015-1339-y     Document Type: Article

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