Emission Image Reconstruction for Randoms-Precorrected PET Allowing Negative Sinogram Values
dc.contributor.author | Ahn, Sangtae | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Fessler, Jeffrey A. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-08-18T18:21:19Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-08-18T18:21:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004-05-04 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Ahn, S.; Fessler, J.A. (2004). "Emission Image Reconstruction for Randoms-Precorrected PET Allowing Negative Sinogram Values." IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 23(5): 591-601. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/85994> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0278-0062 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/85994 | |
dc.description.abstract | Most positron emission tomography (PET) emission scans are corrected for accidental coincidence (AC) events by real-time subtraction of delayed-window coincidences, leaving only the randoms-precorrected data available for image reconstruction. The real-time randoms precorrection compensates in mean for AC events but destroys the Poisson statistics. The exact log-likelihood for randoms-precorrected data is inconvenient, so practical approximations are needed for maximum likelihood or penalized-likelihood image reconstruction. Conventional approximations involve setting negative sinogram values to zero, which can induce positive systematic biases, particularly for scans with low counts per ray. We propose new likelihood approximations that allow negative sinogram values without requiring zero-thresholding. With negative sinogram values, the log-likelihood functions can be nonconcave, complicating maximization; nevertheless, we develop monotonic algorithms for the new models by modifying the separable paraboloidal surrogates and the maximum-likelihood expectation-maximization (ML-EM) methods. These algorithms ascend to local maximizers of the objective function. Analysis and simulation results show that the new shifted Poisson (SP) model is nearly free of systematic bias yet keeps low variance. Despite its simpler implementation, the new SP performs comparably to the saddle-point model which has shown the best performance (as to systematic bias and variance) in randoms-precorrected PET emission reconstruction. | en_US |
dc.publisher | IEEE | en_US |
dc.title | Emission Image Reconstruction for Randoms-Precorrected PET Allowing Negative Sinogram Values | en_US |
dc.type | article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Biomedical Engineering | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Engineering | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 15147012 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/85994/1/Fessler61.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1109/TMI.2004.826046 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of (EECS) |
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