Spatiotemporal processing of gated cardiac SPECT images using deformable mesh modeling

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2839-2849

  Brankov, Jovan G ^a   Yang, Yongyi ^a   Wernick, Miles N ^a  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; HEART; MESH GENERATION; NOISE ABATEMENT; PARTICLE BEAMS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

DEFORMABLE MESH MODEL; DIAGNOSTIC FEATURES; GATED CARDIAC SPECT; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES; SPACE-TIME TRAJECTORY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL PROCESSING;

IMAGE DENOISING;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART PERFUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTION; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 25644434414     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2013027     Document Type: Article

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