Dynamic imaging and tracer kinetic modeling for emission tomography using rotating detectors

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 986-994

  Lau, Chi Hoi ^a   Feng, Dagan ^a   Hutton, B F ^a   Lun, D P K ^a   Siu, Wan Chi ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Coincidence detection; Emission tomography; PET; SPECT; Tracer kinetic modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERPOLATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

COINCIDENCE DETECTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FILTRATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; TIME; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; FILTRATION; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TERMINOLOGY; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0032216612     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.746631     Document Type: Article

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