Enhanced parameter estimation methods for noisy SPECT data

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 102-111

  Wen, Lingfeng ^a,b   Eberl, Stefan ^a,b   Choi, Hon Chit ^a   Feng, David Dagan ^a,c   Fulham, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Monte Carlo simulation; Parameter estimation; Physiological model; Quantitative analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURVE FITTING; FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; GENERALIZED LINEAR LEAST SQUARE ALGORITHM (GLLS); PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECTS (PVE);

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

3 (2 AZETIDINYLMETHOXY)PYRIDINE; IODINE 123; TRACER;

ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 37849049008     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2007.03.011     Document Type: Article

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