Characterization of dynamic 3-D PET imaging for functional brain mapping

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 261-269

  Barnes, David ^a   Egan, Gary ^a   O'Keefe, Graeme ^a   Abbott, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dynamic activation; Noise equivalent counts; Positron emission tomography; Supercomputer reconstruction

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL BRAIN MAPPING; SUPERCOMPUTER RECONSTRUCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SUPERCOMPUTERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; OXYGEN; WATER;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; OXYGEN RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; WATER;

EID: 0031150145     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.585760     Document Type: Article

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