| Literature DB >> 16575431 |
Zigang Wang1, Guoping Han, Tianfang Li, Zhengrong Liang.
Abstract
In the paper, we present a new hardware acceleration method to speedup the ordered-subsets expectation-maximization (OS-EM) algorithm for quantitative SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) image reconstruction with varying focal-length fan-beam (VFF) collimation. By utilizing the geometrical symmetry of VFF point-spread function (PSF), compensation for object-specific attenuation and system-specific PSF are accelerated using currently available PC video/graphics card technologies. A ten-fold acceleration of quantitative SPECT reconstruction is achieved.Year: 2005 PMID: 16575431 PMCID: PMC1420649 DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.858231
Source DB: PubMed Journal: IEEE Trans Nucl Sci ISSN: 0018-9499 Impact factor: 1.679