Fast 3D iterative image reconstruction for SPECT with rotating slat collimators

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 715-729

  Holen, Roel Van ^a   Vandenberghe, Stefaan ^a   Staelens, Steven ^a   De Beenhouwer, Jan ^a   Lemahieu, Ignace ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D RECONSTRUCTION; BACKWARD PROJECTIONS; COMPUTATION TIME; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; CONTRAST TO NOISE; FAST COMPUTATIONS; FAST CONVERGENCES; FULLY 3D RECONSTRUCTION; GOLD STANDARDS; ITERATIVE ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATRIX APPROACHES; MATRIXES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; NEW APPROACHES; ORDER OF MAGNITUDES; ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; PARALLEL-HOLE COLLIMATORS; PHOTON COLLECTIONS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION METHODS; ROTATING SLAT COLLIMATORS; SIMULATED DATUM; SINOGRAMS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; SPECT IMAGING; SYSTEM MATRICES; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3D) RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; RESTORATION; ROTATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CALCULATION; CAMERA; COLLIMATOR; CONTRAST; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATIONMAXIMIZATION; NOISE; ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 63649090078     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/3/016     Document Type: Article

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