Reconstruction for gated dynamic cardiac PET imaging using a tensor product spline basis

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 80-91

  Verhaeghe, Jeroen ^b   D'Asseler, Yves ^a,b   Staelens, Steven ^a,b   Vandenberghe, Stefaan ^a,b   Lemahieu, Ignace ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dynamic and gated PET; Myocardium; Tensor product splines

Indexed keywords

BASIS FUNCTIONS; CARDIAC MOTION; GATE DOMAIN; GAUSSIAN FILTERING; TENSOR PRODUCT;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTIMIZATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33847694274     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.888814     Document Type: Article

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