Image reconstruction for dynamic PET based on low-order approximation and restoration of the sinogram

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 738-749

  Kao, Chien Min ^a   Yap, Jeffrey T ^a   Mukherjee, Jogeshwar ^a   Wernick, Miles N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic; PET; Principal component analysis; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BRAIN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SINOGRAMS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MACACA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACACA MULATTA; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0031283375     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.650871     Document Type: Article

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