First Mediterranean Thematic Workshop on Advanced Molecular Brain Imaging with Compact High Performance MRI-Compatible PET and SPECT Imagers – Potential for a Paradigm Shift

Session

Software:

Aug 30, 2012, 5:50 PM

Giardini di Naxos (Taormina, Sicily)

35. Introductory talk: “Image quality – The role of software and what is indeed needed from the high performance detector. Resolution or efficiency?”

Dr N. Clinthorne

8/30/12, 5:50 PM

36. Algorithms for imaging techniques (accuracy, speed, required computing power, and related challenges) - Spatial resolution/efficiency trade-off (pattern vs small lesions detection)

E. Cisbani

8/30/12, 6:15 PM

40. Reconstruction Techniques (SPECT)

B. Tsui

8/30/12, 6:40 PM

Abstract. Early image reconstruction techniques for SPECT are based on the analytical image reconstruction methods that assume the experimentally acquired projection data are ideal. That is, they are not contaminated by physical factors such as photon attenuation and scatter, instrumentation factors such as trade-off between resolution and detection efficiency, and the spatially variant...