Evaluation of reconstruction techniques in regional cerebral blood flow SPECT using trade-off plots: A Monte Carlo study

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 719-725

  Olsson, Anna ^a   Ärlig, Åsa ^a   Carlsson, Gudrun Alm ^a   Gustafsson, Agnetha ^b  

^a Department of Radiation Physics   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Hospital Physics   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction (image processing, computer assisted); Monte Carlo (Monte Carlo method); RCBF; SPECT (tomography, emission computed, single photon)

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 34547655846     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e328274204d     Document Type: Article

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