Accuracy and precision of compartmental model parameters obtained from directly estimated dynamic SPECT time-activity curves

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 170-176

  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

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURVE FITTING; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTONS; TISSUE;

DYNAMIC SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); FULLY FOUR-DIMENSIONAL (4-D) RECONSTRUCTION; KINETIC PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 2342476512     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.823014     Document Type: Article

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