objective: in this study, we aimed to validate the accuracy of computed tomography-based attenuation correction (ctac) using the bilinear scaling method.methods: the measured attenuation coefficient (μm) was compared to a theoretical attenuation coefficient (μt ) using four different ct scanners and an rmi 467 phantom. the effective energy of the ct beam x-rays was calculated, using the aluminu...

Introduction:  The  advent  of  dual-modality  PET/CT  scanners  has  revolutionized  clinical  oncology  by  improving lesion localization and facilitating treatment planning for radiotherapy. In addition, the use of  CT images for CT-based attenuation correction (CTAC) decreases the overall scanning time and creates  a noise-free  attenuation  map  (6map).  CTAC  methods  include  scaling,  s...

introduction:  the  advent  of  dual-modality  pet/ct  scanners  has  revolutionized  clinical  oncology  by  improving lesion localization and facilitating treatment planning for radiotherapy. in addition, the use of  ct images for ct-based attenuation correction (ctac) decreases the overall scanning time and creates  a noise-free  attenuation  map  (6map).  ctac  methods  include  scaling,  s...

A low-complexity adaptive scaling algorithm is proposed for the implementation of 2-D image scaling applications. a less complexity, less memory requirement, and high performance algorithm is proposed for Very Large Scale Integration implementation of an image scaling processor. The anticipated image scaling algorithm consists of a clamp filter, spatial filter and a bilinear interpolation. The ...

The dual purpose of this article is to establish bilinear Poincaré-type estimates associated to an approximation of the identity and to explore the connections between bilinear pseudo-differential operators and bilinear potential-type operators. The common underlying theme in both topics is their applications to Leibniz-type rules in Sobolev and Campanato-Morrey spaces under Sobolev scaling.

In this paper, an adaptive edge enhancement technique is proposed for two-dimensional (2-D) image scaling application. The anticipated image scaling algorithm consists of an edge detector, bilinear interpolation and sobel filter. The bilinear interpolation defines the intensity of the scaled pixel with the weighted average of the four nearest neighboring pixels, interpolated images become smoot...

The Fourier restriction norm method is used to show local wellposedness for the Cauchy-Problem ut + uxxx + (u 4)x = 0, u(0) = u0 ∈ H s x(R), s > − 1 6 for the generalized Korteweg-deVries equation of order three, for short gKdV3. For real valued data u0 ∈ L 2 x(R) global wellposedness follows by the conservation of the L-norm. The main new tool is a bilinear estimate for solutions of the Airy-e...

Attenuation correction of PET emission data using spatially correlated CT images is fast and precise yielding a noise-free attenuation map (μmap) in comparison with radionuclide transmission scanning (TX). However, it is essential to convert the linear attenuation coefficients obtained from CT scans to those corresponding to 511 keV. Several conversion strategies have been developed including s...

A number of ill-posed inverse problems in signal processing, like blind deconvolution, matrix factorization, dictionary learning and blind source separation share the common characteristic of being bilinear inverse problems (BIPs), i.e. the observation model is a function of two variables and conditioned on one variable being known, the observation is a linear function of the other variable. A ...