Experimental investigation of angular stackgram filtering for noise reduction of SPECT projection data: Study with linear and nonlinear filters

International Journal of Biomedical Imaging

Volumn 2007, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Happonen, Antti P ^a,b   Koskinen, Matti O ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONLINEAR FILTERING;

DATA FILTERING; GAUSSIAN KERNELS; RADIAL SINOGRAM FILTERING; STACKGRAM FILTERING;

PROJECTION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34250889535     PISSN: 16874188     EISSN: 16874196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2007/38516     Document Type: Article

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