Analysis of resolution and noise properties of nonquadratically regularized image reconstruction methods for PET

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 413-424

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

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Image resolution; Noise; Positron emission tomography (PET); Regularization; Statistical image reconstruction

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

QUADRATIC REGULARIZATION; TAYLOR EXPANSION; TAYLOR TRUNCATION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 40149109896     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2007.911549     Document Type: Article

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