Title: Emission image reconstruction based on incremental optimisation transfer algorithm

Authors: Jianhua Yan, Jun Yu

Addresses: Department of Electronic Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Room 203, Building C1, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, China. ' Department of Electronic Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Room 203, Building C1, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, China

Abstract: In this paper, the authors/researchers will introduce the incremental optimisation transfer framework to estimate emission means in positron emission tomography. The proposed algorithms accelerate convergence speeds and ensure global convergence (to a stationary point) under mild regularity conditions without inconvenient relaxation parameters. In experiments using synthetic data and real phantom data, it was found that, for a fixed level of background noise, the proposed idea in this paper provides high-quality reconstructed images.

Keywords: positron emission tomography; PET; incremental optimisation transfer; IOT; penalised likelihood estimate; emission image reconstruction; reconstructed images.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2011.042017

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 2011 Vol.6 No.3, pp.146 - 150

Published online: 18 Mar 2015 *

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