Pinhole SPECT reconstruction using blobs and resolution recovery

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2719-2728

  Andreyev, Andriy ^a,b   Defrise, Michel ^a,b   Vanhove, Christian ^b  

^a IEEE   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Blobs; Pinhole spect reconstruction; Regularization; Resolution recovery (RR)

Indexed keywords

BLOBS; GAUSSIAN QUADRATURE METHOD; PINHOLE SPECT RECONSTRUCTION; RESOLUTION RECOVERY;

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 33750389921     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.878004     Document Type: Article

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