. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 3.

Published in final edited form as: J Nucl Cardiol. 2017 Apr 21;27(1):80–95. doi: 10.1007/s12350-017-0890-3

Table 2.

Tabulation of the processing time of the different steps in estimation and reconstruction on a linux platform with two dual core 3.0 GHz CPU’s (4 CPU’s)

Activity	Time (minutes)
Rebin list-mode data	1.5
Synchronization	3.5
Separate body and respiratory motion	4.5
Reconstruct with only resolution compensation to check attenuation map alignment	1.5
Check attenuation map alignment	2.0
Reconstruct with attenuation, resolution, and scatter compensation for heart mask definition	1.5
Define heart mask	1.5
Reconstruct 6 reference and 6 non-reference respiratory projection sets	8.5
Estimate respiratory amplitude (6DOF)	0.25
Reconstruct simultaneously and in sequence 7 respiratory projections sets	10.0
Reorientation and generation of polar maps	5.0
Total	38.75

Note that reconstructing without attenuation compensation to check the alignment of the attenuation map is not described in the text. Such QC is also done clinically