Selection of task-dependent diffusion filters for the post-processing of SPECT images

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1713-1730

  Beekman, Freek J ^a   Slijpen, Eddy T P ^a   Niessen, Wiro J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031807850     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/6/024     Document Type: Article

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