MicroPET reconstruction with random coincidence correction via a joint Poisson model

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 680-686

  Chen, Tai Been ^a   Chen, Jyh Cheng ^c,d   Lu, Henry Horng Shing ^b   Liu, Ren Shyan ^c  

^a I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d TAIPEI CITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CV; FBP; FORE; FWHM; MLE EM; OSEM; PDEM

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ALGORITHMS; BLOCK CODES; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PLASTIC BOTTLES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; RANDOM PROCESSES; REPAIR; RESTORATION; STANDARDS; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); TOMOGRAPHY;

(PL) PROPERTIES; APPLIED (CO); ATTENUATION ,; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATION (COVS); COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT); EXPECTATION MAXIMUM ALGORITHMS; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION (EBP); FULL WIDTH AT HALF-MAXIMUM (FWHM); FUNCTIONAL INFORMATION; IN-VIVO; ITERATIVE ALGORITHMS; LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION (ML-EM); MICROPET; ORDERED SUBSET (OS); POISSON; POISSON MODELS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RANDOM COINCIDENCES; RANDOM CORRECTION; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION METHODS; SIMULATED RESULTS; SINOGRAMS; SYSTEM MATRICES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MICROPOSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTED MAXIMUM RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; PHANTOM; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMPT AND DELAY EXPECTED MAXIMUM RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BOTTLES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTIC CONTAINERS; PYROMETRY; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RESTORATION; SPECTROSCOPY; STANDARDS; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 47649119642     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.05.013     Document Type: Article

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