Quantitative processing of cardiac dynamic patient data with slow camera rotation

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 2933-2935

  Boutchko, Rostyslav ^b   Sitek, Arkadiusz ^a,c   Hu, Jicun ^d   Reutter, Bryan W ^a,b   Gullberg, Grant T ^a,b   Botvinick, Elias H ^e  

^a IEEE

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CARDIOLOGY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

CAMERA ROTATION; DYNAMIC ACQUISITION; DYNAMIC DATASETS; IMAGE ELEMENTS; MULTI-RESOLUTION REPRESENTATION;

IMAGE RESOLUTION;

EID: 38549171318     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.356490     Document Type: Conference Paper

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