List mode reconstruction for PET with motion compensation: a simulation study

Jinyi Qi1, R.H. Huesman1
1Department of Functional Imaging, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

Tóm tắt

Motion artifacts can be a significant factor that limits the image quality in high-resolution PET. Surveillance systems have been developed to track the movements of the subject during a scan. Development of reconstruction algorithms that are able to compensate for the subject motion will increase the potential of PET. In this paper we present a list mode likelihood reconstruction algorithm with the ability of motion compensation. The subject motion is explicitly modeled in the likelihood function. The detections of each detector pair are modeled as a Poisson process with time-varying rate function. The proposed method has several advantages over the existing methods. It uses all detected events and does not introduce any interpolation error. Computer simulations show that the proposed method can compensate simulated subject movements and that the reconstructed images have no visible motion artifacts.

Từ khóa

#Positron emission tomography #Motion compensation #Image reconstruction #Reconstruction algorithms #Computer simulation #Image quality #Surveillance #Tracking #Detectors #Event detection

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