Optimal time-activity basis selection for exponential spectral analysis: Application to the solution of large dynamic emission tomographic reconstruction problems

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 48, Issue 4 II, 2001, Pages 1452-1464

  Maltz, Jonathan S ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic emission computed tomography (ECT); Image reconstruction; Kinetic modeling; Myocardial single photon emission tomography (PET); Spectral analysis; Tracer kinetics

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; KINETIC MODELING; MYCOCARDIAL SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; NONNEGATIVE BASIS FUNCTIONS; TIME ACTIVITY BASIS SELECTION; TRACER KINETICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0035428751     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.958379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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