Fig. 18.
Evaluation of a 4D PET image reconstruction method with respiratory motion (RM) compensation using the 4D XCAT phantom with respiratory motion capabilities. (a) A sample coronal slice from the 3D XCAT phantom with three lung lesions and no RM. The PET images of the same coronal slice obtained from (b) a 3D Maximum Likelihood-Expectation Maximization (ML-EM) image reconstruction algorithm with no RM compensation, (c) a 4D ML-EM image reconstruction with RM compensation using known RM modeling, and (d) a 4D ML-EM image reconstruction with RM compensation using an estimated 4D RM model.