Evaluation of image noise in respiratory gated PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 66-70

  Detorie, Nicole C ^a,b   Kesner, Adam L ^b   Solberg, Timothy D ^c   Dahlbom, Magnus ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gating; Image noise; PET; Respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

GATING; IMAGE NOISE; ORDERED SUBSETS-EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION (OSEM); RESPIRATORY MOTION;

IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SURFACE TENSION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33847739711     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.890014     Document Type: Article

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