A Fourier reconstruction algorithm with constant attenuation compensation using 180° acquisition data for SPECT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 6165-6179

  Tang, Qiulin ^a,d   Zeng, Gengsheng L ^b   Gullberg, Grant T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; THEOREM PROVING;

ATTENUATED PROJECTION DATA; COMPLEX CENTRAL SLICE THEOREM; CONSTANT ATTENUATION COMPENSATION; FOURIER RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BRAIN SLICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 36048990098     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/20/006     Document Type: Article

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