A survey of approaches for direct parametric image reconstruction in emission tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3963-3971

  Tsoumpas, Charalampos ^a,b   Turkheimer, Federico E ^b   Thielemans, Kris ^a  

^a GE HEALTHCARE   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emission tomography; Kinetic modeling; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

KINETIC PARAMETERS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PHARMACOKINETICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; KINETIC MODELING; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; PARAMETRIC IMAGE; PHARMACOKINETIC MODEL; PHYSIOLOGICAL INFORMATIONS; QUANTITATIVE DATA; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPARTMENT MODEL; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PARAMETRIC TEST; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 50449098042     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2966349     Document Type: Review

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