Quantitative comparison of FBP, EM, and Bayesian reconstruction algorithms for the IndyPET scanner

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 258-276

  Frese, Thomas ^a   Rouze, Ned C ^b   Bouman, Charles A ^c   Sauer, Ken ^d   Hutchins, G D ^b  

^a MCKINSEY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Purdue University   (United States)

^d University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Image reconstruction; PET; Tomogrpahy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

BAYESIAN METHOD; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHM; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHMS; PHANTOM;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0038736677     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2002.808353     Document Type: Article

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