Performance characteristics of the 3-D OSEM algorithm in the reconstruction of small animal PET images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 798-804

  Yao, Rutao ^a   Seidel, Jürgen ^a   Johnson, Calvin A ^a   Daube Witherspoon, Margaret E ^a   Green, Michael V ^a   Carson, Richard E ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

IMAGE CONTRAST; IMAGE PROFILE FITTING; IMAGE UNIFORMITY; ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; RAT BRAIN IMAGES; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RAT; SCINTISCANNING; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0034240690     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.876305     Document Type: Article

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