Analysis of region of interest quantification for PET image reconstruction with selective regularization

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1781-1786

  Ahn, Sangtae ^a,b   Leahy, Richard M ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CORRECTION METHODS; PET TRACERS; QUANTIFICATION; REGION OF INTEREST (ROI);

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 38649119508     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354240     Document Type: Conference Paper

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