Comparison of conventional, model-based quantitative planar, and quantitative SPECT image processing methods for organ activity estimation using In-111 agents

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 3967-3981

  He, Bin ^a   Frey, Eric C ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; ATTENUATION; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIOTHERAPY;

GE MILLENIUM VH/HAWKEYE SYSTEM; IBRITUMOMAB TIUXETAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD (ML) ESTIMATION; QUANTITATIVE PLANAR (QPLANAR) PROCESSING;

BIOMECHANICS;

INDIUM 111;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORGAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VISCERA;

EID: 33746792002     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/16/006     Document Type: Article

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