Improved image quality and computation reduction in 4-D reconstruction of cardiac-gated SPECT images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 423-433

  Narayanan, Manoj V ^a,b   King, Michael A ^a,b   Wernick, Miles N ^a,b   Byrne, Charles L ^a,b   Soares, Edward J ^a,b   Pretorius, P Hendrik ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CARDIAC GATED SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FRAME BY FRAME RECONSTRUCTION; KARHUNEN-LOEVE TRANSFORM; SIGNAL DECORRELATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HEART; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SOFTWARE; STROKE VOLUME; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034178296     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.870253     Document Type: Article

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