A study of lesion contrast recovery for iterative PET image reconstructions versus filtered backprojection using an anthropomorphic thoracic phantom

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 119-127

  Hsu, Ching Han ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Lesion contrast recovery; MAP PET image reconstruction; Ordered subsets expectation maximization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

FILTERED BACKPROJECTION (FBP);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ASSAY; EVALUATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0036158918     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(01)00032-5     Document Type: Article

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