Dr. Eiichi Tanaka’s Achievement in the Research of Image Reconstruction

Abstract

In memoriam of Dr. Eiichi Tanaka who passed away on August 21, 2021, I review his achievement in the research of tomographic image reconstruction. Tomographic image reconstruction is an important research area which has wide applications including X-ray CT, nuclear medicine imaging such as PET and SPECT, and electron microscopy. Since 1970’s, Dr. Tanaka has worked on numerous important topics in tomographic reconstruction fields aiming at using them in image reconstruction for PET and SPECT. Among them, in this paper, I will introduce his research on Filtered BackProjection (FBP) method, analytical attenuation correction in SPECT, image reconstruction in Time-of-Flight PET, image reconstruction for 3-D PET imaging, and iterative image reconstruction method called Dynamic Row-Action Maximum Likelihood Algorithm (DRAMA).