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The resolution recovery in PET iterative methods such as OSEM, including all the physical effects involved in the system response matrix, is often limited by the reduced sampling in the projection space. In this work, we propose a method to further improve resolution recovery in the PET image reconstruction process by iteratively refining the measurements with data-driven increased sampling. In this method we first reconstruct the image by standard OSEM methods. After that, we define four subLORs around each initially measured LOR, and estimate the subLOR contribution spreading the original number of counts with maximum-likelihood based weights, computed with the relative value of the projections in each subLOR with respect to the four subLORs. Now we reconstruct the image with the standard OSEM algorithm using the subLORs set of data. We call this step a superiteration, which may be repeated 2–3 times until convergence is achieved. We have evaluated the improvements in image quality obtained using data acquired in the Argus PET/CT scanner. The method shows promising results increasing the recovery coefficients without noise raise measured in an Image Quality phantom, and also remarkable image quality improvements for live patients reconstructions.
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This work was supported by Comunidad de Madrid (S2013/MIT-3024 TOPUS-CM), Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spanish Government (FPA2015-65035-P, RTC-2015-3772-1). This is a contribution for the Moncloa Campus of International Excellence. Grupo de Física Nuclear-UCM, Ref.: 910059. This work acknowledges support by EU’s H2020 under MediNet a Networking Activity of ENSAR-2 (grant agreement 654002). J. L. Herraiz is also funded by the EU Cofund Fellowship Marie Curie Actions, 7th Frame Program. P. Galve is supported by a Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Banco Santander predoctoral grant, CT27/16-CT28/16.
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Galve, P., López-Montes, A., Udías, J.M., López Herraiz, J. (2019). Iterative Algorithm for Optimal Super Resolution Sampling. In: García-Ramos, JE., Andrés, M., Valera, J., Moro, A., Pérez-Bernal, F. (eds) Basic Concepts in Nuclear Physics: Theory, Experiments and Applications. RÁBIDA 2018. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 225. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22204-8_10
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