Application of reconstruction-based scatter compensation to thallium-201 SPECT: Implementations for reduced reconstructed image noise

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 325-333

  Kadrmas, D J ^a,b   Frey, E C ^a,b   Tsui, B M W ^a,b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Iterative reconstruction; Scatter compensation; SPECT; SVD

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; THALLIUM;

ARTICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

PHANTOMS, IMAGING; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PHOTONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

RECONSTRUCTION-BASED SCATTER COMPENSATION (RBSC); SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0032081267     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.712122     Document Type: Article

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