Effect of overlapping projections on reconstruction image quality in multipinhole SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 972-983

  Vunckx, Kathleen ^a,b   Suetens, Paul ^a,c   Nuyts, Johan ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Multipinhole single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); Multiplexing; Overlap; Reconstruction image quality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTIPLEXING; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTORESISTS; QUALITY CONTROL; REPAIR; RESTORATION; TELECOMMUNICATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST-TO-NOISE RATIO (CNR); DESIGN PARAMETERS.; FIELD OF VIEW (FOV); LOCAL IMPULSE RESPONSE (LIR); MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION (ML-EM); MULTIPINHOLE (MP); MULTIPINHOLE-SPECT; PINHOLE SPECT; PROJECTION DATA; PROJECTION IMAGING; PROJECTION RAYS; RECONSTRUCTION IMAGE; SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 46349107395     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.922700     Document Type: Article

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