A modified uniform Cramer-Rao bound for multiple pinhole aperture design

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 896-902

  Meng, L J ^a   Clinthorne, N H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiple pinhole aperture; UCRB; Variance resolution tradeoffs

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VECTORS;

MULTIPLE PINHOLE APERTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; UNIFORM CRAMER-RAO BOUND (UCRB); VARIANCE-RESOLUTION TRADEOFFS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GAMMA CAMERAS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 3142695541     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.828356     Document Type: Article

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