System calibration and statistical image reconstruction for ultra-high resolution stationary pinhole SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 960-971

  Van Der Have, Frans ^a,b,c,d,e   Vastenhouw, Brendan ^b,c   Rentmeester, Mart ^b,c,d,e   Beekman, Freek J ^a  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d MILABS   (Netherlands)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Calibration; Pinhole; Reconstruction; Singlephoton emission computed tomography (SPECT)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEAD; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; REPAIR; RESTORATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

(P ,P ,T) MEASUREMENTS; (PL) PROPERTIES; ANALYTICAL METHODS; COMPENSATION METHODS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; ITERATIVE ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION (IR) ALGORITHM; LOOK UP TABLE (LUT); MODEL BASED (OPC); MULTIPINHOLE (MP); PINHOLE SPECT; POINT SOURCES; POINT SPREAD FUNCTIONS (PSFS); SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION; SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); SMALL ANIMALS; SPECT SYSTEM; STATISTICAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION (SR); SUB-MILLIMETER; SYSTEM CALIBRATION; ULTRA HIGH RESOLUTION;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRY; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 46349090151     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.924644     Document Type: Article

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