Spatially adaptive temporal smoothing for reconstruction of dynamic image sequences

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2769-2777

  Brankov, Jovan G ^a,b   Wernick, Miles N ^a,b   King, Michael A ^a,c   Yang, Yongyi ^a,b   Narayanan, Manoj V ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic positron emission tomography (PET); Four dimensional (4 D) reconstruction; Image sequence; Principal component analysis; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC IMAGE SEQUENCES; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL (4-D) RECONSTRUCTION; SIGNAL COVARIANCE MATRIX; SMOOTHING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 33750417760     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.882738     Document Type: Article

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