Minimum cross-entropy reconstruction of PET images with anatomically based anisotropic median-diffusion filtering

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 6527-6530

  Chan, Chung ^a,b   Fulton, Roger ^a,d,e   Cai, Weidong ^a,b   Feng, David Dagan ^a,b,c   Meikle, Steven ^a,e  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^d ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIAN DIFFUSION FILTERING; NOISE TRADEOFF; THORAX PHANTOM;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 57649201302     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353855     Document Type: Conference Paper

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