An investigation of iterative reconstruction strategies for lung lesion detection in SPECT

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 7, Issue , 2004, Pages 4241-4245

  Gifford, H C ^a   Zheng, X M ^b   Boening, G ^a   Bruyant, P P ^a   King, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT MONITORING;

ITERATIVE CONSTRUCTION; LUNG LESION; RADIOTRACER; SPECT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844512429     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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