Improving the quality of small animal brain pinhole SPECT imaging by Bayesian reconstruction

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 986-994

  Sohlberg, Antti ^a   Lensu, Sanna ^b,c   Jolkkonen, Jukka ^b   Tuomisto, Leena ^b   Ruotsalainen, Ulla ^d   Kuikka, Jyrki T ^a,e  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^e Niuvanniemen sairaala   (Finland)

Author keywords

Brain; Pinhole tomography; Reconstruction; Small animal; SPECT

Indexed keywords

EPIDEPRIDE; EPIDEPRIDE I 123; IODINE 123; OXIDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN SIZE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FELDKAMP DAVIS KRESS METHOD; HAN WISTAR RAT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PINHOLE MEDIAN ROOT PRIOR METHOD; PINHOLE ORDERED SUBSETS MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION METHOD; PINHOLE SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 3142658658     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-004-1488-y     Document Type: Article

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