Joint estimation of dynamic PET images and temporal basis functions using fully 4D ML-EM

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 5455-5474

  Reader, Andrew J ^a   Sureau, Florent C ^b,c   Comtat, Claude ^b   Trébossen, Régine ^b   Buvat, Irène ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b DIF   (France)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

IMAGE RESOLUTION; POISSON MEASURED DATA; SPATIAL LOCATION; STATISTICAL QUALITY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHODOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33751166570     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/21/005     Document Type: Article

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