Technical Reports

Z. Liang, R. Jaszczak, and Hiram Hart (1992), On Bayesian Image Reconstruction from Projections: Multinomial prior and local correlation, Technical Report No. IRIS-92-1.

Z. Liang (1993), On the Derivation of EM-type Reconstruction Algorithms, Technical Report No. IRIS-93-1.

Z. Liang, J. Ye, and D. Harrington (1993), Reconstruction of Object-specific Attenuation Map Using Three-head SPECT System for Quantitative Cardiac Imaging, Technical Report No. IRIS-93-2.

J. Ye, Z. Liang, and D. Harrington (1994), Accurate Analytical Compensation for Non-uniformly Attenuated Brain SPECT Using Enlarged Uniform Attenuation Map, Technical Report No. IRIS-94-1.

Z. Liang, D. Wang, J. Ye, H. Li, C. Roque, and D. Harrington (1994), Automating Intensity-variation Correction for Segmentation of Brain Tissues from Multi-spectral MR Images, Technical Report No. IRIS-94-2.

Z. Liang, J. Ye, J. Cheng, and D. Harrington (1995), On the Inversion of Exponential Radon Transform for Quantitative Brain SPECT, Technical Report No. IRIS-95-1.

Z. Liang, J. Cheng, and J. Ye (1995), Validation of the Central-ray Approximation for Quantitative SPECT Reconstruction, Technical Report No. IRIS-95-2.

J. Cheng, Z. Liang, and J. Ye (1996), Frequency-domain Approaches to Quantitative Brain SPECT with Object-specific Attenuation, Technical Report No. IRIS-96-1.

Z. Liang, J. Ye, J. Cheng, and D. Harrington (1996), Quantitative Chest SPECT in Three Dimensions: An efficient simultaneous compensation approach, Technical Report No. IRIS-96-2.

Z. Liang, J. Ye, J. Cheng, J. Li, and D. Harrington (1997), Analytical Inversion for Quantitative SPECT Imaging Including Photon Attenuation and Resolution Variation, Technical Report No. IRIS-97-1.

Z. Liang, J. Cheng, and J. Ye (1997), An Analytical Simulator for Quantitative SPECT Imaging by Tracing First-order Scatters and Central-ray Attenuation Factors, Technical Report No. IRIS-97-2.

J. Li, Z. Liang, H. Kuan, J. You, C. Wong, G. Wang, F. Yang, D. Schlyer, N. Volkow, and D. Harrington (1998), Frequency-Domain Analyses of Collimator for F-18 SPECT Imaging/Sampling Issues in High Energy SPECT Imaging, Technical Report No. IRIS-98-1.

J. You, G. Han, and Z. Liang (1998), A 4D Poisson Impulse Field Analysis on Noise Propagation for Quantitative SPECT Imaging, Technical Report No. IRIS-98-2

L. Li, J. Li, G. Han, and Z. Liang (1998), Analysis of Point-source Measurements for PSF Construction and Scatter Compensation, Technical Report No. IRIS-98-3.

X. Hao, G. Han, J. You, and Z. Liang (1998), Accurate Determination of the Head Boundary from Scatter Data for Analytical Inversion of the Exponential Radon Transform, Technical Report No. IRIS-98-4.

D. Chen, Z. Liang, M. Wax, B. Li, and A. Kaufman (1999), A Novel Approach to Extract Colon Wall from CT Images for Virtual Colonoscopy, Technical Report No. IRIS-99-1.

G. Han and Z. Liang (2001), Fast 3D ML-EM Reconstruction for Cardiac SPECT with Varying Focal-length Fan-beam Collimators, Technical Report No. IRIS-01-1.

X. Li, G. Han, H. Lu, L. Li, and Z. Liang (2001), An Energy Spectrum Based Scatter Estimation Method Using Triple Energy Window Acquisitions, Technical Report No. IRIS-01-2.

H. Lu, Z. Liang, I. Hsiao, X. Li, and L. Li (2001), Spatial Resolution Characteristics of K-L Domain Adaptive Wiener Filtering on Poisson Noise in SPECT Sinogram Space, Technical Report No.IRIS-01-3.

Z. Wang and Z. Liang (2002), Feature Based Rendering for Partial Volume Mixture Datasets, Technical Report of IRIS Laboratory, Department of Radiology, SUNY-SB, August 20, 2002.

J. Wen, T. Li, X. Li, and Z. Liang (2002), An Approximated Inversion of Attenuated Radon Transform for SPECT Reconstruction with Fan-beam and Variable focal-length Fan-beam Collimators, Technical Report of IRIS Laboratory, Department of Radiology, SUNY-SB, August 25, 2002.

Z. Liang, D. Chen, S. Lakare, L. Li, M. Wax, J. Anderson, A. Kaufman, and D. Harrington (2003), A Feasibility on Laxative-free Virtual Colonoscopy, Technical Report of Departments of Radiology and Computer Science, SUNY-SB, December 1, 2003.

Z. Liang, S. Lakare, D. Chen, M. Wax, J. Anderson, A. Kaufman, and D. Harrington (2003), A Feasibility on Less-stressful Bowel Preparation for Virtual Colonoscopy Screening with Follow-up Biopsy by Optical Colonoscopy, Technical Report of Departments of Radiology and Computer Science, SUNY-SB, December 15, 2003.

H. Cohen, E. Fiore, E. Posniak, M. Zawin, J. Anderson, D. Harrington, and Z. Liang (2004), A Retrospective Study of Virtual Colonoscopy Against Optical Colonoscopy, Technical Report of Department of Radiology, SUNY-SB, January 20, 2004.

J. You, T. Li, and Z. Liang (2004), A Classical FBP Implementation of Novikovs Inversion of Attenuated Radon Transform for Quantitative SPECT Imaging, Technical Report of IRIS Laboratory, Department of Radiology, SUNY-SB, March 15, 2004. PDF

J. Wang, T. Li, H. Lu, X. Li, and Z. Liang (2004), An Effective Noise Reduction Method for Low-dose CT Imaging: Simulation and experimental studies, Technical Report of IRIS Laboratory, Department of Radiology, SUNY-SB, April 15, 2004.

X. Li, L. Li, H. Lu, T. Li, G. Han, and Z. Liang (2004), An Investigation on Energy Spectrum-based Scatter Estimation Using Triple-energy Window Acquisition Strategy for Tc-99m SPECT Imaging, Technical Report of IRIS Laboratory, Department of Radiology, SUNY-SB, August 15, 2004.

J. You and Z. Liang (2005), A Reconstruction Scheme for the Limited Angle Problem in Tomography, Technical Report of IRIS Laboratory, Department of Radiology, SUNY-SB, April 20, 2005.

J. You and Z. Liang (2005), Noise Analysis and Treatment for SPECT Imaging via a FBP Algorithm with Classical Filters, Technical Report of IRIS Laboratory, Department of Radiology, SUNY-SB, April 28, 2005.

J. You and Z. Liang (2005), SPECT Image Reconstruction Using Novikovs Inversion Formula for Circularly Rotating Collimators, Technical Report of IRIS Laboratory, Department of Radiology, SUNY-SB, May 5, 2005.

S. Wang, L. Li, Z. Wang, and Z. Liang, (2006), Implementation and Preliminary Evaluation of a Mixture Segmentation Algorithm for Electronic Colon Cleansing in Virtual Colonoscopy, Technical Report of IRIS Laboratory, Department of Radiology, SUNY-SB, October 10, 2006.

J. Wang, D, Eremina, H. Lu, G. Zhang, J. Chen, J. Manzione, and Z. Liang (2007), An Experimental Study on the Nnoise Properties of Preprocessed X-ray Sinogram Data in the Radon Space, Technical Report of IRIS Laboratory, Department of Radiology, SUNY-SB, February 10, 2007.