Quantitative accuracy of penalized-likelihood reconstruction for ROI activity estimation

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 167-172

  Fu, Lin ^a   Stickel, Jennifer R ^b,c   Badawi, Ramsey D ^b   Qi, Jinyi ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Radiation Oncology   (United States)

Author keywords

Emission tomography; Image reconstruction; Maximum a posteriori; Penalized likelihood; Quantification

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; FORECASTING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUMERICAL METHODS; REPAIR; RESTORATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS; ACTIVITY QUANTIFICATIONS; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; NON-LINEAR; OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE; PENALIZED LIKELIHOOD; PENALIZED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOODS; PHANTOM DATUM; PHANTOM EXPERIMENTS; QUANTIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACIES; REGION OF INTERESTS; REGULARIZATION PARAMETERS; SPATIAL VARIANTS; THEORETICAL EXPRESSIONS; THEORETICAL PREDICTIONS; THEORETICAL STUDIES; THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS; TUMOR ACTIVITIES;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 60449117535     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.2005063     Document Type: Article

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