A linear wavelet filter for parametric imaging with dynamic PET

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 289-301

  Turkheimer, Federico E ^a   Aston, John A D ^a   Banati, Richard B ^a   Riddell, Cyril ^b   Cunningham, Vincent J ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Filtering; James Stein estimator; Kinetic analysis; Positron emission tomography (PET); Wavelets

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THEOREM PROVING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WHITE NOISE;

DYNAMIC POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; JAMES-STEIN ESTIMATOR; KINETIC ANALYSIS; LINEAR WAVELET FILTER; PARAMETRIC IMAGING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RACLOPRIDE; RADIOISOTOPE;

AGED; ALGORITHM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RACLOPRIDE; RADIOISOTOPES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0038660272     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.809597     Document Type: Article

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