Noise characteristics of 3-d and 2-d pet images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 9-23

  Pajevic, Sinisa ^a   Daube Witherspoon, Margaret E ^a   Bacharach, Stephen L ^a   Carson, Richard E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

3 d positron emission tomography; Correlation; Ge advance scanner; Noise

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCANNING; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

GATED ACQUISITION; NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNT; NORMALIZED STANDARD DEVIATIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; THORAX;

ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0031987385     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.668691     Document Type: Article

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