Simultaneous reconstruction of tissue attenuation and radioactivity maps in SPECT

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4190 LNCS - I, Issue , 2006, Pages 397-404

  Tian, Yi ^a   Liu, Huafeng ^a   Shi, Pengcheng ^b,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KALMAN FILTERING; MEDICAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOACTIVITY; STATISTICS;

ATTENUATION PARAMETERS; EMISSION SINOGRAMS; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

TISSUE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33750277395     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11866565_49     Document Type: Conference Paper

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