Tomographic reconstruction of dynamic cardiac image sequences

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 932-942

  Gravier, Erwan ^a   Yang, Yongyi ^a   Jin, Mingwu ^a  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic cardiac image reconstruction; Incremental gradient algorithm; Motion compensation; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; GRADIENT METHODS; MOTION COMPENSATION; PIXELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

DYNAMIC CARDIAC IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INCREMENTAL GRADIENT ALGORITHM;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; GATED IMAGING; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOVEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 34047235022     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2006.891328     Document Type: Article

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