Partial volume effect compensation for quantitative brain SPECT imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 969-976

  Du, Yong ^a   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a   Frey, Eric C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain SPECT imaging; Partial volume effect compensation; Quantification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESTORATION;

BRAIN SPECT IMAGING; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; NEURODEGENERATIVE; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT COMPENSATION; QUANTIFICATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

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

EID: 23844500693     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.850547     Document Type: Article

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