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Nuclear Science Symposium
and
Medical Imaging Conference

Lyon, France
October
15-20, 2000

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Program of Oral and Poster Sessions

3.3 - MIC Instrumentation Systems and Medical Imaging - Image Reconstruction Algorithms and Sequence Processing

Oral Session Mainly CT and Analytical Algorithms
Oral Session SPECT and Registration
Oral Session PET
Poster Session CT
Poster Session General
Poster Session SPECT
Poster Session PET


 


Oral Session Mainly CT and Analytical Algorithms          
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Wednesday 18 October  11:00 - 12:30
Chairperson(s) : Michel Defrise and Per-Erik Danielsson     18' per presentation
149 Weighted Hybrid Cone Beam Reconstruction for Circular Trajectories M. Grass, Th. Köhler, and R. Proksa
669 Short-scan Reconstruction Algorithms for Diffraction Tomography and their Analogy to Halfscan Fan-beam CT M. Anastasio and X. Pan
266 Performance Evaluation of Local ROI Algorithms for Exact ROI Reconstruction in Spiral Cone-Beam Computed Tomography K. Sourbelle, G. Lauritsch, K.C. Tam, F. Noo, W.A. Kalender
572 3D-FRP: Direct Fourier Reconstruction with Fourier Reprojection for Fully 3D PET S. Matej
658 A 3D Filtered Back-Projection Algorithm for SPECT using a Multi-Segment Rotating Slant-Hole Collimator Y.C. Wang, D.E. Wessell, E.C. Frey and B.M.W. Tsui

 
Oral Session SPECT and Registration          
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Thursday 19 October  11:00 - 12:30
Chairperson(s) : Anna Celler and Stephen J. Glick     18' per presentation
397 Effect of Block-iterative Acceleration on Ga-67 Tumor Detection in Thoracic SPECT
H C Gifford, M A King, M V Narayanan, and P H Pretorius
24 LMIRA : List-Mode Iterative Reconstruction Algorithm for SPECT L.R. Bouwens, R. Van de Walle, H. Gifford, M.A. King, I. Lemahieu, R.A. Dierckx
471 A Dynamic Expectation Maximization Algorithm for Single Camera Rotation Dynamic SPECT (dSPECT) T. Farncombe, S. Blinder, A. Celler, D. Noll, J. Maeght, R. Harrop
815 A Hybrid 3d Reconstruction / Registration Algorithm for Correction of Head Motion in Emission Tomography B.F. Hutton, A. Kyme, Y.H. Lau, D.W. Skerrett, R.R. Fulton
583 4D Affine Registration Models for Respiratory-Gated PET GJ Klein, BW Reutter and RH Huesman


Oral Session PET          
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Friday 20 October  11:00 - 12:30
Chairperson(s) : Paul Kinahan and Sibylle Ziegler     18' per presentation
487 Image Properties of List Mode Likelihood Reconstruction for a Rectangular Positron Emission Mammography with DOI Measurements Jinyi Qi and Ronald H. Huesman Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
278 Acceleration of List-Mode Expectation Maximisation - Maximum Likelihood A. J. Reader, R. Manavaki, S. Zhao, P. J. Julyan, D. L. Hastings and J. Zweit
713 4D PET Image Reconstruction from List Mode Data Evren Asma, Thomas E. Nichols, Jinyi Qi, Richard M. Leahy
427 A Concave Prior Penalizing Relative Differences for Maximum-a-Posteriori Reconstruction in Emission Tomography J. Nuyts, D. Beque, P. Dupont, L. Mortelmans
351 Three-dimensional Non-local Edge-preserving Regularization for PET Transmission Reconstruction Daniel F. Yu and Jeffrey A. Fessler


Poster Session CT          
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Wednesday 18 October  15:00 - 16:30
Chairperson(s) : Michel Defrise and Per-Erik Danielsson
11 A Practical Cone Beam Artifact Correction Algorithm Jiang Hsieh
17 A Nonlinear Helical Reconstruction Algorithm for Multi-slice CT
Jiang Hsieh
376 Longitudinal Sampling and Aliasing in Multi-slice Helical Computed Tomography Patrick La Riviere and Xiaochuan Pan Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago
78 Cone-Beam Iterative Reconstruction of a Segment of a Long Object Larry Zeng, Grant Gullberg, and Paul Christian, University of Utah Daniel Gagnon, Marconi Medical Systems, Inc.
208 Fast Ordered Subset Reconstruction for X-ray CT F. J. Beekman and C. Kamphuis, Utrecht University
147 Cone-beam Image Reconstruction using Spherical Harmonics: Short-object Problem with Midsize-Detector Katsuyuki Taguchi, Gengsheng L. Zeng, and Grant T. Gullberg
172 A New Partial Scan Weighting Algorithm with Application to Arbitrary Pitch Selection in Multirow CT and Cardiac CT Guy Besson
186 Helical Reconstruction Algorithms for an Eight-Row CT Scanner Guy Besson, Cathy Ma
183 Multiresolution Reconstruction in Fan-Beam Tomography S. Bonnet, F. Peyrin, F. Turjman and R. Prost
249 A Fast and Efficient Method for Sequential Cone-Beam Tomography Th. Koehler, R. Proksa, and M. Grass
343 Efficient Forward Projection Through Discrete Data Sets Using Tri-Linear Interpolation Th. Koehler, H. Turbell, and M. Grass
327 Solution to the Long Object Problem by Convolutions with Spatially Variant 1-D Hilbert Transforms in Spiral Cone-Beam Computed Tomography G. Lauritsch, K.C. Tam, and K. Sourbelle (GL: Siemens Medical Engineering, Erlangen, Germany; KT: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, USA; KS: IMP, University of Erlangen, Germany)
357 Eliminating the Second-Intersection Contributions to Spiral Scan Cone Beam CT K.C. Tam, G. Lauritsch, and K. Sourbelle
478 An Efficient Cone Beam Filtered Back-projection (CB-FBP) Reconstruction Algorithm for a Circle-plus-two-arc Orbit Xiangyang Tang, Ruola Ning
714 Estimation of Geometrical Parameters in Spiral CT F. Noo, T.A. White, R. Clackdoyle, T.J. Roney
725 New multi-sector reconstruction for cardiac CT Tinsu Pan, Ph.D. and Yun Shen Ph.D. GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

 
Poster Session General          
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Friday 20 October  15:00 - 16:30
Chairperson(s) : Michel Defrise and Per-Erik Danielsson
4 Application of JavaSpaces to improve iterative reconstruction of SPECT data P. Knoll, S. Mirzaei, K. Koriska. H. Köhn L. Boltzmann Inst. of Nuclear Medicine, Vienna
764 Object Oriented Imaging Analysis Design and Interface Implemented in Java Stephen Adler
765 Layer Extraction Technique Applied to Edge Detection of MR Images with Truncation Artifacts Jianhua Luo, Su Hao and Yuemin Zhu
780 A New Efficient Inverse Radon Transform Algorithm F. Torkamani-Azar M. Habibi
67 Globally Convergent Newton-SOR Method for Statistical Image Reconstruction Shinji Sawada and Hiroyuki Kudo
350 A New Computation Compression Scheme based on a Multifrequential Approach Thomas Rodet, Pierre Grangeat and Laurent Desbat
582 An Iterative Approach to Tensor Tomography Vladimir Y. Panin, G. Larry Zeng, and Grant T. Gullberg
722 Backprojection Filtering Algorithms For Reconstruction of Vector and Second Order Tensor Fields Grant Gullberg, Michel Defrise, Vladimir Panin, and Larry Zeng University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA University Hospital AZ-VUB, Brussels, Belgium
599 Computationally Efficient Nonlinear Edge Preserving Smoothing of n-D Medical Images Via Scale-Space Fingerprint Analysis Bryan W. Reutter, V. Ralph Algazi, and Ronald H. Huesman
585 Statistically Regulated and Adaptive EM Reconstruction for Emission Computed Tomograph Dan J. Kadrmas, Ph.D.
698 List Mode EM Reconstruction of Compton Scatter Camera Images in 3-D S.J. Wilderman, N.H. Clinthorne, C-h. Hua, J.A. Fessler, and W. Les Rogers
701 Bias-Resolution-Variance Tradeoffs for Single Pixel Estimation Tasks using the Uniform Cramer-Rao Bound Thomas J. Kragh, and Alfred O. Hero, III
577 The Effects of Incorrect Modeling on Noise and Resolution Properties of ML-EM Images. D.W. Wilson and H.H. Barrett
83 Reconstruction of Smooth Distributions within Unsmooth Circumferences from Limited Views Using Filtered-backprojection Algorithm J. Feng et al.,State Key Lab for Novel Software Tech.,Nanjing Univ.,China


Poster Session SPECT
         
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Thursday 19 October  15:00 - 16:30
Chairperson(s) : Anna Celler and Stephen J. Glick
730 Toward Optimal Reduction of Noise and Errors in Non-Iterative Reconstruction Methods for 3D SPECT Chien-Min Kao, Xiaochuan Pan, and Bill C. Penney
16 The Influence of Variable Myocardial thickness on SPECT Perfusion Imaging P.H. Pretorius, T-S. Pan, M.V. Narayanan and M.A. King
491 A Theoretically Based Pre-Reconstruction Filter for Spatio-Temporal Noise Reduction in Gated Cardiac SPECT Hongbing Lu, Guoping Han, Dongqing Chen, Lihong Li, and Zhengrong Liang
586 Spatially Adaptive Temporal Smoothing for Reconstruction of Dynamic PET and Gated SPECT Images Jovan G. Brankov, Yongyi Yang, Manoj V. Narayanan, and Miles N. Wernick
364 Comparison of Different Figure of Merit Functions for Dynamic Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (dSPECT). J. Maeght, D. Noll, A. Celler Member, IEEE, T. Farncombe.
666 Optimal time-activity basis selection for exponential spectral analysis in dynamic emission tomography Jonathan S. Maltz
23 Separating the object and Detector Dependent Characteristics of Projector/backprojector Through Use of an Intermediate Stage L.R. Bouwens, R. Van de Walle, H.C. Gifford, M.A. King, I. Lemahieu, R.A. Dierckx
460 The Mu-Tau-Sigma Model for SPECT Reconstruction Donald L. Gunter, Caesar E. Ordonez
60 TTR algorithm for the inversion of the exponential X-ray transform J.-M. Wagner, F. Noo
733 Sampling Conditions of the Exponential Ray Transform L. Desbat and C. Mennessier
473 Nonlinear Sinogram Filter Design for Backprojection Reconstruction Blanca I. Andia, Ken Sauer and Charles A. Bouman
354 A Simultaneous Reconstruction/Segmentation Method for 123I SPECT Striata Imaging Ivan Laurette, Éric Debreuve, Jacques Darcourt and Michel Barlaud
390 Enhancement of SPECT Reconstructions by Means of Coregistered MR Data P. Calvini, P. Vitali, F. Nobili, G. Rodriguez
642 Transmission Image Reconstruction and Redundant Information in SPECT with Asymmetric Fan-Beam Collimation X. Pan, P. La Riviere, D. Gilland, C.-M. Kao, W. Chang, R. Jaszczak

  

Poster Session PET         
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Friday 20 October  15:00 - 16:30
Chairperson(s) : Paul Kinahan and Sibylle Ziegler
137 Comparison of SSRB, MSRB and FORE Methods to 3DRP Algorithm Using Data from a High Resolution PET Scanner Hossain Baghaei, Jorge Uribe, Hongdi Li, Yu Wang and Wai-Hoi Wong
156 Implementation and evaluation of a 3D Ordered Subsets Expectation Maximization and Median Root Prior (3D OSEM-MRP) reconstruction algorithm. V.Bettinardi, E.Pagani, S.Alenius, M.Teras, M.C.Gilardi, C.Labbe, M.Jacobson, K.Thielemans, M.Sadki,C.Morel, R.Levkovitz, A.Ben-Tal, T.Spinks, G.Mitra, F.Fazio
185 Reconstruction Strategies for the HRRT C.MichM.Lercher,C.Watson,D.Newport,
M.Casey,M.Defrise,K.Wienhard, W.D.Heissel, M.Schmand, X.Liu, M.Sibomana, S.Vollmar, C.Knöss,
385 BeeHive: Cluster Reconstruction of 3-D PET Data in a Windows NT network using FORE St. Vollmar, M. Lercher, C. Knöss, C. Michel, K. Wienhard and W.D. Heiss
389 Improving the Visual Quality of Median Root Prior Images in PET and SPECT Reconstruction S. Alenius and U. Ruotsalainen
472 Incorporation of Frame-to-frame Coupling in Simultaneous Reconstruction of Dynamic Image Sequences in PET EA Jonsson, SC Huang, T Chan
518 Iterative reconstruction of 3D PET images including a precise model of the scattering process Alexander Werling, Olaf Bublitz, Josef Doll, Matthias E. Bellemann, Gunnar Brix
598 3D Reconstruction in PET Cameras with Irregular Sampling and Depth of Interaction P.R.G. Virador, W.W. Moses,
R.H. Huesman, J. Qi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California
595 Maximum Likelihood Emission Image Reconstruction for Randoms-precorrected PET Scans Mehmet Yavuz and Jeffrey A. Fessler
664 Fast PET Image Reconstruction Based on SVD Decomposition of the System Matrix
V. Selivanov and R. Lecomte
711 Fast Fully 3D Image Reconstruction Using Planograms D Brasse, PE Kinahan, R Clackdoyle,
C Comtat, M Defrise, DW Townsend
668 SS3D - Fast Fully 3-D PET Iterative Reconstruction using Stochastic Sampling H. A. Kudrolli (1), W. A. Worstell(2) and V.G. Zavarzin (2). (1) Boston Univ. Boston MA 02215. (2) PhotoDetection Systems, Boston
795 Low-Statistics Reconstruction with AB-EMML K. Erlandsson, D. Visvikis, W.A. Waddington,
I. Cullum, P.H. Jarritt, L.S. Pilowsky Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London