Adaptive SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 775-788

  Barrett, Harrison H ^a,b   Furenlid, Lars R ^a,b   Freed, Melanie ^b,c   Hesterman, Jacob Y ^b,d   Kupinski, Matthew A ^b   Clarkson, Eric ^b   Whitaker, Meredith K ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^d Bioscan Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive imaging; Hotelling observer; Image quality; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); Wiener estimator

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE QUALITY;

ADAPTIVE IMAGING; SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); WIENER ESTIMATOR;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 44449099634     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2007.913241     Document Type: Article

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