Direct reconstruction of kinetic parameter images from dynamic PET data

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 636-650

  Kamasak, M E ^a   Bouman, C A ^a   Morris, E D ^b   Sauer, K ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic PET; Iterative reconstruction; Kinetic modeling; Regularization; Tomography

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PET; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; KINETIC MODELING; REGULARIZATION;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POSITRONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; KINETICS; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; KINETICS; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 18844431381     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.845317     Document Type: Article

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