Wavelet denoising in voxel-based parametric estimation of small animal PET images: A systematic evaluation of spatial constraints and noise reduction algorithms

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 5899-5915

  Su, Yi ^a   Shoghi, Kooresh I ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METAL ANALYSIS; MODEL STRUCTURES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

APPLICATIONS.; DATA SETS; DYNAMIC IMAGES; HIGHER NOISE LEVELS; IMAGING AGENTS; NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; NOISE REDUCTION TECHNIQUES; PARAMETRIC ESTIMATIONS; PARAMETRIC IMAGES; PARAMETRIC IMAGING; PET IMAGES; SIMULATED DATUMS; SIMULATION STUDIES; SMALL ANIMALS; SPATIAL CONSTRAINTS; SPATIAL NOISES; SPATIAL SMOOTHING; SQUARE ERRORS; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATIONS; WAVELET DENOISING;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; HEART; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KINETICS; MICE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS;

EID: 58149260414     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/21/001     Document Type: Article

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