An image reconstruction framework for arbitrary positron emission tomography geometries

Author

Mathews, Aswin John ; Ke Li ; Komarov, Sergey ; Qiang Wang ; Ravindranath, Bosky ; O´Sullivan, James A. ; Yuan-Chuan Tai

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Syst. Eng., Washington Univ. in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

Oct. 27 2013-Nov. 2 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

We are investigating a variety of custom system geometries for different PET applications. These geometries have detectors of varying sizes, and detection efficiency, placed at different locations in 3D space. To evaluate the performance of these unconventional geometries require the development of a general purpose reconstruction framework that is easy to adapt to any geometry. This enables investigation of optimal application-specific PET systems.

Keywords

geometry; image reconstruction; medical image processing; positron emission tomography; arbitrary positron emission tomography geometries; image reconstruction framework; optimal application-specific PET systems; Crystals; Detectors; Geometry; Image reconstruction; Positron emission tomography; Tumors; PET; breast; head and neck; image quality; plant; positron emission tomography; reconstruction; resolution; small animal;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0533-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829352

Filename

6829352