Estimation of images and nonrigid deformations in gated emission CT

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1130-1144

  Mair, B A ^a,b   Gilland, David R ^a,b   Sun, Jing ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Elastic deformation; Gated emission tomography; Image reconstruction; Motion estimation; Penalized maximum likelihood (ML); Positron emission tomography (PET); Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); Strain energy

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC; ELASTIC DEFORMATION; GATED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PENALIZED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD (ML); SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); STRAIN ENERGY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MOTION ESTIMATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; GATED IMAGING; HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 33748102449     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.879323     Document Type: Article

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