Short-scan SPECT imaging with non-uniform attenuation and 3D distance-dependent spatial resolution

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 2811-2833

  Pan, Xiaochuan ^a   Sidky, Emil Y ^a   Kao, Chien Min ^a   Zou, Yu ^a   Metz, Charles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC METHODS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LIGHT EMISSION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS; TOMOGRAPHY;

SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

IMAGE QUALITY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEART; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; HUMANS;

EID: 0037036610     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/15/319     Document Type: Article

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