Patent ID: 7498581
Filing Date: 2009-03-03
Classification: G06T,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of reconstructing projection data indicative of a plurality of portion annihilation events, the method comprising: (a) distributing each of a plurality of subsets of the projection data into at least a first portion and a second portion; (b) concurrently performing reconstruction operations on the first portion using a first processor and on the second portion using a second processor, the reconstruction operations being performed concurrently by each of the first and second processors including: (c) repeating steps (b)(i), (b)(ii), (b)(iii) a plurality of times on each of the plurality of subsets to iteratively update the object estimate; (d) repeating steps (a), (b), and (c) on each of the subsets to iteratively update the object estimate; (e) generating a human readable image indicative of the iteratively update object estimate.