Reconstruction from uniformly attenuated SPECT projection data using the DBH method

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-29

  Huang, Qiu ^a   You, Jiangsheng ^b   Zeng, Gengsheng L ^c   Gullberg, Grant T ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Cubic Imaging   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Fan beam; Half scan; Image reconstruction; Short scan; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); Truncation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; REPAIR; RESTORATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

ATTENUATION; HALF-SCAN; SHORT-SCAN; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); TRUNCATION;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; SAMPLE SIZE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACTS; DATA COMPRESSION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SAMPLE SIZE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 58049200299     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.923974     Document Type: Article

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