4D maximum a posteriori reconstruction in dynamic SPECT using a compartmental model-based prior

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1553-1574

  Kadrmas, Dan J ^a   Gullberg, Grant T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

POSTERIORI RECONSTRUCTIONS;

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

TEBOROXIME TC 99M;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CAMERA; CASE REPORT; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; KINETICS; NOISE REDUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TIME; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; CORONARY DISEASE; GAMMA CAMERAS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KINETICS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LUNG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; OXIMES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0035017354     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/46/5/315     Document Type: Article

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