Preprocessing of SPECT projection data: Benefits and pitfalls

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 2160-2164

  Vija, A Hans ^a,b   Yahil, Amos ^a,c   Hawman, Eric G ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Pixon LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE NOISE SUPPRESSION; HUMAN OBSERVER STUDIES; SPECT PROJECTION DATA; TOMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846585144     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596762     Document Type: Conference Paper

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