3-D positron emission tomography emission scans registration and transmission scan synthesis

Author

Huang, Chung-Lin ; Chang, Wen-Tsang ; Wu, Liang-Chih ; Wang, Jiunn-Kuen

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

9-15 Nov 1997

Firstpage

1508

Abstract

The duration of a PET imaging scan can be reduced if the transmission scan of one patient which is used for emission correction can be synthesized by using the reference transmission scan of another patient. In this paper, the authors propose a new inter-subjects PET emission scan registration method and PET transmission synthesis method by using the boundary information of the body or brain scan of the PET emission scans. With the corresponding vector field between the two emission scans and the transmission scan of the reference set, the authors can synthesize the transmission scan of the target set

Keywords

brain; image registration; medical image processing; positron emission tomography; vectors; 3-D positron emission tomography; PET; body scan; boundary information; brain scan; emission scans registration; medical diagnostic imaging; nuclear medicine; target set; transmission scan synthesis; vector field; Arm; Attenuation; Brain; Cyclotrons; Histograms; Hospitals; Image registration; Nuclear medicine; Positron emission tomography; Shape;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium, 1997. IEEE

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4258-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1997.670605

Filename

670605