3D RBI-EM reconstruction with spherically-symmetric basis function for SPECT rotating slat collimator

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2273-2292

  Wang, Wenli ^a   Hawkins, William ^a   Gagnon, Daniel ^a  

^a PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

PHOTON EMISSION; PROJECTION MEASUREMENTS; SPATIAL DOMAINS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

RADON;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 3042784987     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/11/011     Document Type: Article

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