Volume-wise application of principal component analysis on masked dynamic PET data in sinogram domain

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2759-2768

  Razifar, Pasha ^a   Axelsson, Jan ^a   Schneider, Harald ^a   Långström, Bengt ^b,c   Bengtsson, Ewert ^a   Bergström, Mats ^a,d  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Radiopharmaceutical Organic Chemistry

^c Uppsala Imanet   (Sweden)

^d NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Masked dynamic data; Pixel wise noise prenormalization; Positron emission tomography (PET); Principal component analysis (PCA); Sinogram domain; Volume wise

Indexed keywords

MASKED DYNAMIC DATA; PIXEL WISE NOISE PRENORMALIZATION; SINOGRAM DOMAIN; VOLUME-WISE;

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUALIZATION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33750391184     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.878008     Document Type: Article

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