A multiresolution restoration method for cardiac SPECT imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2469-2475

  Franquiz, Juan M ^a   Shukla, Shailendra ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac SPECT; Cardiac liver artifact; Multiresolution; Restoration

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HEART; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PHANTOMS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; CARDIAC SPECT; CARDIAC-LIVER ARTIFACT; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; HIGH FREQUENCY CHANNELS; MULTIRESOLUTION; MULTIRESOLUTION METHODS; SPACE AND FREQUENCY DOMAINS;

RESTORATION;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032439479     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598462     Document Type: Article

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