Abstract
Iterative image reconstruction for positron emission tomography (PET) can improve image quality by using spatial regularization that penalizes image intensity difference between neighboring pixels. Themost commonly used quadratic penalty often over-smoothes edges and small objects in reconstructed images. Non-quadratic penalties can preserve edges but may introduce piece-wise constant blocky artifacts. The results are also sensitive to the hyper-parameter that controls the shape of the penalty function. This paper presents a robust regularization for iterative image reconstruction by using neighborhood patches instead of individual pixels in formulating the non-quadratic penalties. An optimization transfer algorithm is developed for the corresponding optimization problem. Computer simulations show that the proposed patch-based regularization can achieve better contrast recovery for small objects compared with quadratic regularization, and is more robust to the hyper-parameter than the conventional pixel-based non-quadratic regularization.
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