Study of direct and indirect parametric estimation methods of linear models in dynamic positron emission tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1299-1309

  Tsoumpas, Charalampos ^a,b   Turkheimer, Federico E ^b   Thielemans, Kris ^a  

^a GE HEALTHCARE   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Kinetic modeling; Positron emission tomography; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; KINETIC PARAMETERS; KINETIC THEORY; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PIXELS; POSITRONS; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

KINETIC MODELING; ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; RADIOACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 41449108094     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2885369     Document Type: Article

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