Improved lesion detection from spatially adaptive, minimally complex, Pixon® reconstruction of planar scintigraphic images

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-81

  Wesolowski, Carl A ^a,b   Yahil, Amos ^c,d   Puetter, Richard C ^e,f   Babyn, Paul S ^a   Gilday, David L ^a   Khan, Mustafa Z ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Pixon LLC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Pixon LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Artefacts; Image noise; Image reconstruction; Iterative algorithms; Lesion detection; Minimum complexity; Pixon method; Planar scintigraphy; Radionuclide imaging

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; NOISE ABATEMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ARTIFACTS; LESIONS; PIXON IMAGES; PLANAR IMAGES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123; GALLIUM CITRATE GA 67; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TECHNIQUE;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 13844255078     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2004.08.003     Document Type: Article

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