Pinhole SPECT with different data acquisition geometries: Usefulness of unified projection operators in homogeneous coordinates

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 298-308

  Wang, Yuchuan ^a,b   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Emission computed tomography; Geometry; Image reconstruction; Single photon

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION GEOMETRIES; EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONSTANDARD COLLIMATOR DESIGNS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECOGNITION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33847792326     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.887372     Document Type: Article

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