Projection space image reconstruction using strip functions to calculate pixels more natural for modeling the geometric response of the SPECT collimator

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 24-44

  Hsieh, Yu Lung ^a   Zeng, Gengsheng L ^a   Gullberg, Grant T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Collimator; Geometric response; Natural pixels; Projection space image reconstruction; Single value decomposition; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

GEOMETRIC RESPONSE FUNCTION; NATURAL PIXELS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION METHOD;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031987380     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.668692     Document Type: Article

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