An investigation of temporal regularization techniques for dynamic PET reconstructions using temporal splines

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1766-1778

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

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dynamic; Image reconstruction; PET; Regularization

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; FUNCTIONS; INTERPOLATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION FRAMEWORKS; GENERALIZED EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI RECONSTRUCTION; REGULARIZATION; REGULARIZATION TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; TEMPORAL REGULARIZATION; TIME-ACTIVITY CURVES;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VARIANCE;

EID: 34247599928     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2723879     Document Type: Article

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