Effect of block-iterative acceleration on Ga-67 tumor detection in thoracic SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49, Issue 1 I, 2002, Pages 50-55

  Gifford, Howard C ^a,b   King, Michael A ^a,b   Narayanan, Manoj V ^a,b   Pretorius, P Hendrik ^a,b   Smyczynski, Mark S ^b   Wells, R Glenn ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Image quality assessment; Iterative reconstruction; Observer studies; Single photon; Tumor detection

Indexed keywords

CHANNELIZED HOTELLING OBSERVER; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; LOCALIZATION RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; ORDERED SUBSET EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION RECONSTRUCTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MATHEMATICAL CARDIAC-TORSO PHANTOM; TUMOR DETECTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PHOTONS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE; TUMORS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036464485     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.998680     Document Type: Article

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