Reconstruction of 2D PET data with Monte Carlo generated system matrix for generalized natural pixels

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3105-3125

  Vandenberghe, Stefaan ^a   Staelens, Steven ^a   Byrne, Charles L ^b   Soares, Edward J ^c   Lemahieu, Ignace ^a   Glick, Stephen J ^d  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^c Brown University College of the Holy Cross   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKPROPAGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SENSORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

BACKGROUND NOISE; BASIS FUNCTIONS; DISCRETE DETECTORS; PIXELS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33745060540     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/12/008     Document Type: Article

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