Limited-angle 3D reconstruction of PET images for dose localization in light ion tumour therapy

Phys Med Biol. 1992 Mar;37(3):791-8. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/37/3/021.

Abstract

In vivo dose localization in light ion tumour therapy can be performed by measuring the range distributions of beta+ active ions in tissue employing positron emission tomographic techniques. For this purpose a multiplicative iteration scheme for reconstructing three-dimensional images from shift-variant, limited-angle data is presented. In the iterative correction steps the algorithm uses the geometric means of quotients calculated from the three-dimensional Radon transforms of the backprojected measured and approximated source distributions. When sources measured with poor statistics are reconstructed, an effective noise suppression is achieved.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Ions
  • Neoplasms / radiotherapy*
  • Radiotherapy Dosage*
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed*

Substances

  • Ions