An investigation of filter choice for filtered back-projection reconstruction in PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3 PART 2, 1998, Pages 1133-1137

  Farquhar, T H ^a   Chatziioannou, A ^a   Chinn, G ^a   Dahlbom, M L ^a   Hoffman, E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LOW PASS FILTERS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; POISSON NOISE; SINOGRAM;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032097464     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.681991     Document Type: Article

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