Title :
Region-based maximum likelihood reconstruction for lesion quantification in positron emission tomography
Author :
De Bernardi, Elisabetta ; Faggiano, E. ; Zito, Felicia ; Baselli, G.
Author_Institution :
Bioeng. Dept., Politec. di Milano, Milan
Abstract :
An algorithm for the activity quantification inside PET oncological lesions is presented and preliminarily assessed on a sphere phantom. The strategy allows convergence to blurring recovery in the lesions avoiding noise amplification in the background.
Keywords :
maximum likelihood detection; phantoms; positron emission tomography; blurring recovery; lesion quantification; maximum likelihood reconstruction; positron emission tomography; sphere phantom; Positron Emission Tomography; maximum likelihood reconstruction; partial volume effect; quantification; regional basis functions;
Conference_Titel :
Advances in Medical, Signal and Information Processing, 2008. MEDSIP 2008. 4th IET International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Santa Margherita Ligure
Print_ISBN :
978-0-86341-934-8
