Comparison of 3-D maximum a posteriori and filtered backprojection algorithms for high-resolution animal imaging with microPET

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 507-512

  Chatziioannou, A ^a   Qi, J ^a   Moore, A ^a   Annala, A ^a   Nguyen, K ^a   Leahy, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANIMAL IMAGING; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHMS; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI ALGORITHMS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; HAPLORHINI; HEAD; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RAT; SCINTISCANNING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; HAPLORHINI; HEAD; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0034178295     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.870260     Document Type: Article

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