Channelized hotelling and human observer study of optimal smoothing in SPECT MAP reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3 II, 2004, Pages 733-741

  Oldan, Jorge ^a   Kulkarni, Santosh ^a   Xing, Yuxiang ^a,b   Khurd, Parmeshwar ^a   Gindi, Gene ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Image quality; Model observer; Reconstruction; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CHANNELING HOTELLING OBSERVER (CHO); MODEL OBSERVERS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECT;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 3342890631     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.829755     Document Type: Article

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