Model-based image reconstruction for four-dimensional PET

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1288-1298

  Li, Tianfang ^a   Thorndyke, Brian ^a   Schreibmann, Eduard ^a   Yang, Yong ^a   Xing, Lei ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHANTOMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TUMORS;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; DEFORMABLE MODELING; FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; TRACER CONCENTRATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL CANCER; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THORAX CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 33646440883     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2192581     Document Type: Article

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