Aperture collimation correction and maximum-likelihood image reconstruction for near-field coded aperture imaging of single photon emission computerized tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 701-711

  Mu, Zhiping ^a,b   Liu, Yi Hwa ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coded aperture; Deconvolution; Maximum likelihood expectation maximization; Small animal imaging; SPECT; URA

Indexed keywords

CODED APERTURE; DECONVOLUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; URA;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33745361046     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.873298     Document Type: Article

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