An evaluation of cardiac uniformity, contrast, and SNR with dual-head 180° and triple-head 360° SPECT scans

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 48, Issue 4 II, 2001, Pages 1428-1434

  Chen, Mu ^a,b   Jaszczak, Ronald J ^a,b   Bowsher, James E ^a,b   Gilland, David R ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging protocol; L curve; Maximum a posteriori (MAP) reconstruction; Prior strength

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIAC UNIFORMITY; CONTRAST; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI RECONSTRUCTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035428483     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.958373     Document Type: Conference Paper

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