Modeling the axial extension of a transmission line source within iterative reconstruction via multiple transmission sources

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 200-215

  Bowsher, J E ^a,b   Tornai, M P ^a,b   Peter, J ^a,b   Gonzalez Trotter D E ^a,b   Krol, A ^a,c   Gilland, D R ^a,b   Jaszczak, R J ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended transmission sources; Image reconstruction; SPECT; Transmission tomography

Indexed keywords

AXIAL EXTENSION; FAN BEAM COLLIMATOR; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0036489377     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.996339     Document Type: Article

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