Abstract
Molecular imaging using dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) can provide in vivo images of physiologically or biochemically important parameters. Direct reconstruction of parametric images from dynamic PET sinograms is statistically more efficient than the conventional indirect methods, which perform image reconstruction and kinetic modeling in two separate steps. Most existing direct reconstruction methods are derived based on a known blood input function. This paper presents a direct reconstruction algorithm using a simplified reference tissue model, which does not require a blood input function. We have derived a minorization-maximization algorithm to find the penalized maximum likelihood solution. Computer simulations show that the proposed method has better bias-variance tradeoff than the conventional indirect method for estimating parametric images of receptor binding potential using dynamic PET.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE |
| Volume | 7258 |
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| State | Published - 2009 |
| Event | Medical Imaging 2009: Physics of Medical Imaging - Lake Buena Vista, FL, United States Duration: Feb 9 2009 → Feb 12 2009 |
Other
| Other | Medical Imaging 2009: Physics of Medical Imaging |
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| Country | United States |
| City | Lake Buena Vista, FL |
| Period | 2/9/09 → 2/12/09 |
Keywords
- Dynamic PET
- Image reconstruction
- Penalized maximum likelihood
- Tracer kinetic modeling
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Biomaterials
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging