Evaluation of reconstruction techniques for lung single photon emission tomography: A Monte Carlo study

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 929-936

  Norberg, Pernilla ^a   Bake, Björn ^a   Jacobsson, Lars ^a   Carlsson, Gudrun Alm ^b   Gustafsson, Agnetha ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Image processing; Lung; Monte Carlo methods; SPECT

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE; ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 37349022119     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e3282f1acac     Document Type: Article

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