Tomographic reconstruction using an adaptive tetrahedral mesh defined by a point cloud

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1172-1179

  Sitek, Arkadiusz ^a,b   Huesman, Ronald H ^a,b   Gullberg, Grant T ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Iterative reconstruction; Positron emission tomography (PET); Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); Tomography

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; JASZCZAK CARDIAC TORSO PHANTOM; MULTIRESOLUTION REPRESENTATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 33748120176     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.879319     Document Type: Article

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