A channelized Hotelling observer study of lesion detection in SPECT MAP reconstruction using anatomical priors

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3601-3617

  Kulkarni, S ^a   Khurd, P ^b   Hsiao, I ^c   Zhou, L ^a   Gindi, G ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ANATOMICAL INFORMATION; DEGREE OF PROXIMITY; DETECTABILITY; LESION DETECTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ORGAN; ORGAN INJURY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 34249655625     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/12/017     Document Type: Article

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