Accuracy and Precision of Compartmental Model Parameters Obtained from Directly Estimated Dynamic SPECT Time-Activity Curves

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 1584-1588

  Reutter, Bryan W ^a   Gullberg, Grant T ^a   Huesman, Ronald H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); Fully four dimensional (4 D) reconstruction; Kinetic parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PATIENT MONITORING; TISSUE;

KINETIC PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0142210102     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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