Deblurring of breathing motion artifacts in thoracic PET images by deconvolution methods

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3587-3600

  El Naqa, Issam ^a   Low, Daniel A ^a   Bradley, Jeffrey D ^a   Vicic, Milos ^a   Deasy, Joseph O ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breathing motion; Deconvolution; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DECONVOLUTION; ENTROPY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MOTION ESTIMATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PHANTOMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; BREATHING MOTIONS; ENTROPY MINIMIZATION; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; IMAGE DE CONVOLUTIONS; IMAGE SPATIAL RESOLUTION; PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS; REGULARIZATION TECHNIQUE;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BREATHING; BREATHING MECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; LUNG CANCER; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33749410633     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2336500     Document Type: Article

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