Statistical list-mode image reconstruction for the high resolution research tomograph

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 4239-4258

  Rahmim, A ^a   Lenox, M ^b   Reader, Andrew J ^c   Michel, Christian ^d   Burbar, Ziad ^d   Ruth, T J ^e   Sossi, Vesna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Concorde Microsystems ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d CPS Innovations   (United States)

^e TRIUMF   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DEPTH-ENCODING; HYBRID ALGORITHM; LIST MODE RECONSTRUCTION; SINOGRAM;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 4644340219     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/18/004     Document Type: Article

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