Quantitative Cardiac SPECT Reconstruction with Reduced Image Degradation Due to Patient Anatomy

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 2838-2844

  Tsui, B M W ^a   Zhao, X D ^a   Gregoriou, G K ^a   Lalush, D S ^a   Frey, E C ^a   Johnston, R E ^a   McCartney, W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHARMACOKINETICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ATTENUATION COMPENSATION; CARDIAC SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); FILTERED BACKPROPAGATION (FBP); ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0028697361     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.340655     Document Type: Article

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