Incorporation of system resolution compensation (RC) in the ordered-subset transmission (OSTR) algorithm for transmission imaging in SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 941-949

  Feng, Bing ^a   Fessler, Jeffrey A ^b   King, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ordered subset transmission (OSTR), resolution compensation; Transmission imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

ATTENUATION MAP RECONSTRUCTION; ORDERED-SUBSET TRANSMISSION (OSTR); RESOLUTION COMPENSATION; TRANSMISSION IMAGING;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33746216270     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.876151     Document Type: Article

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