The impact of noisy and misaligned attenuation maps on human-observer performance at lesion detection in SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 753-760

  Wells, R Glenn ^a,b   Gifford, Howard C ^a,c   Pretorius, P Hendrik ^a,c   Farncombe, Troy H ^a,c   Narayanan, Manoj V ^a,c   King, Michael A ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Image quality; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION; LESION DETECTION; LOCALIZATION-RECEIVER-OPERATING-CHARACTERISTIC METHOD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE PACKAGE MCAT;

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036624636     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.1039559     Document Type: Article

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