Evaluation of an Efficient Compensation Method for Quantitative Fan-Beam Brain SPECT Reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 170-179

  Li, Tianfang ^a   Wen, Junhai ^a   Han, Guoping ^b   Lu, Hongbing ^c   Liang, Zhengrong ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b State University of New York Stony Brook ^*  (United States)

^c FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; fan beam collimation; quantitative reconstruction; reconstruction evaluation; ROC; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 17444411520     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.839365     Document Type: Article

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