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Indian J Radiol Imaging. 2014 Apr;24(2):103-6. doi: 10.4103/0971-3026.134379.

PET reconstruction artifact can be minimized by using sinogram correction and filtered back-projection technique.

The Indian journal of radiology & imaging

Ashish Kumar Jha, Nilendu C Purandare, Sneha Shah, Archi Agrawal, Ameya D Puranik, Venkatesh Rangarajan

Affiliations

  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Tata Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

PMID: 25024515 PMCID: PMC4094957 DOI: 10.4103/0971-3026.134379

Abstract

Filtered Back-Projection (FBP) has become an outdated image reconstruction technique in new-generation positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) scanners. Iterative reconstruction used in all new-generation PET scanners is a much improved reconstruction technique. Though a well-calibrated PET system can only be used for clinical imaging in few situations like ours, when compromised PET scanner with one PET module bypassed was used for PET acquisition, FBP with sinogram correction proved to be a better reconstruction technique to minimize streak artifact present in the image reconstructed by the iterative technique.

Keywords: Filtered back-projection; iterative reconstruction; sinogram correction; sinogram repair; streak artifact

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