Aperture optimization in emission imaging using ideal observers for joint detection and localization

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2019-2034

  Zhou, Lili ^a   Khurd, Parmeshwar ^b   Kulkarni, Santosh ^c   Rangarajan, Anand ^d   Gindi, Gene ^a,c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c Stony Brook University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JOINTS (ANATOMY); MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FINITE APERTURE SIZE; JOINT DETECTION; PLANAR EMISSION IMAGING;

PHOTONS;

APERTURE DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COLLIMATOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; JOINT RADIOGRAPHY; NOISE REDUCTION; PHOTON; PINHOLE IMAGING SYSTEM; PLANAR EMISSION IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TASK PERFORMANCE; TECHNICAL AID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 42649086001     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/8/002     Document Type: Article

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