Detection and validation of the body edge in low count emission tomography images

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 84, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 153-161

  Barnden, Leighton R ^a   Dickson, John ^b   Hutton, Brian F ^b  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body edge; OSEM; PET; Projection edge; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOTION CONTROL; SET THEORY;

FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION (FBP); PROJECTION EDGE; ROOT MEAN SQUARE (RMS) VALUE;

EDGE DETECTION;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; LUNG PERFUSION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION;

HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33846006922     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2006.08.001     Document Type: Article

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