• DocumentCode
    1707323
  • Title

    An angular frequency dependent filter for PET reconstruction

  • Author

    Feng, Jian ; Kao, Chien-Min ; La Rivière, Patrick ; Pan, Xiaochuan

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Radiol., Chicago Univ., IL, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2001
  • Firstpage
    1742
  • Abstract
    PET image quality is often limited by the presence of noise and blur. In this paper, we developed an angular frequency dependent filter for improving reconstruction of PET images. Our results indicated that the proposed filter outperforms the conventional method in terms of both visual quality and quantitative accuracy. In addition, the proposed filter can automatically adjust its degree of smoothing according to the count level of the input PET data.
  • Keywords
    image reconstruction; medical image processing; positron emission tomography; PET image quality; PET reconstruction; angular frequency dependent filter; blur; image reconstruction; noise; quantitative accuracy; visual quality; Degradation; Filtering; Filters; Frequency dependence; Image quality; Image reconstruction; Noise reduction; Positron emission tomography; Radiology; Stochastic processes;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2001 IEEE
  • ISSN
    1082-3654
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7324-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NSSMIC.2001.1008679
  • Filename
    1008679