Optimization of Ga-67 imaging for detection and estimation tasks: Dependence of imaging performance on spectral acquisition parameters

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1859-1866

  El Fakhri, Georges ^a   Moore, Stephen C ^a   Kijewski, Marie Foley ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimator; Cramer Rao bound; Detection; Estimation; Ga 67 imaging; Task based optimization

Indexed keywords

CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; ERROR DETECTION; ESTIMATION; PHANTOMS; SPHERES;

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; BAYESIAN ESTIMATORS; DETECTION AND ESTIMATION; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; LOWER ENERGIES; MONTE CARLO PROGRAMS; SPECTRAL ACQUISITION; TASK-BASED;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

GALLIUM 67;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENERGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036703560     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1493214     Document Type: Article

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