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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2009 Jan 13;28(5):739–751. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2008.2012034

TABLE I.

Sample Computation Times for the Tof Reconstruction and Sensitivity Matrix Generation

TOF reconstruction Counts 300 ps 600 ps Sensitivity matrix generation
List-Mode TOF 20M
40M
6 min/it
12 min/it
11 min/it
22 min/it
Space-based approach (full LOR space)
≈1* hour
DIRECT
(40 × 3 views)
any count level
1.4* min/it
Fourier-based approach (DIRECT geometry)
≈1* min

(Image size 144×144×62, 2-GHz Mac G5, single processor

*

non-optimized and using generic FFT routines.)