Quantitative simultaneous 99mTc/123I cardiac SPECT using MC-JOSEM

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 602-611

  Ouyang, Jinsong ^a   Zhu, Xuping ^a   Trott, Cathryn M ^a   El Fakhri, Georges ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cardiac SPECT; Dual radionuclide; Iterative reconstruction; MC JOSEM

Indexed keywords

CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; OPTIMIZATION; PHANTOMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; CARDIAC SPECT; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; MC-JOSEM; ORDERED SUBSET EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RELATIVE STANDARD DEVIATIONS;

HEART;

15 (4 IODOPHENYL) 3 METHYLPENTADECANOIC ACID I 123; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FATTY ACID; IODOBENZENE; IODOFILTIC ACID;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPTON EFFECT; HEART MUSCLE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT ORDERED SUBSET EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; LIVER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOACTIVITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOFT TISSUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; FATTY ACIDS; HEART; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IODOBENZENES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 59249102779     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3063544     Document Type: Article

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