Improvement of image resolution and quantitative accuracy in clinical Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 135-146

  Beekman, F J ^a   Kamphuis, C ^a   King, M A ^b   Van Rijk, P P ^a   Viergever, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Cardiac imaging; Collimator; Cone beam; Inverse problems; Radionuclide imaging; Reconstruction; Regularisation; Scatter; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTONS;

RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035284544     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(00)00064-1     Document Type: Article

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