Evaluation of pre- and post-reconstruction count-dependent Metz filters for brain PET studies

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1431-1440

  Varga, J ^a   Bettinardi, V ^b   Gilardi, M C ^b   Riddell, C ^b   Castiglioni, I ^b   Rizzo, G ^b   Fazio, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Filters; Image processing; PET

Indexed keywords

FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BRAIN PHANTOMS; CLINICAL STUDY; MEAN SQUARE DIFFERENCE; METZ FILTERS; NORMALIZED RESIDUALS; OPTIMAL ORDERING; PROCESSED IMAGES; REFERENCE IMAGE;

LOW PASS FILTERS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; FILTER; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE REDUCTION; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; THEORY;

EID: 0030807392     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598031     Document Type: Article

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