Characterization of ordered-subsets expectation maximization with 3D post-reconstruction Gauss filtering and comparison with filtered backprojection in 99mTc SPECT

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 75-82

  Brambilla, Marco ^a,b   Cannillo, Barbara ^a   Dominietto, Marco ^a   Leva, Lucia ^a   Secco, Chiara ^a   Inglese, Eugenio ^a  

^a MAGGIORE DELLA CARITÀ HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Vice President and Secretary General of European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics   (Italy)

Author keywords

Filtered backprojection; Iterative reconstruction; Ordered subsets expectation maximization; SPECT

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FILTER; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 19744363745     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03027384     Document Type: Article

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