Sinogram bow-tie filtering in FBP PET reconstruction

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1663-1671

  Abella, M ^a   Vaquero, J J ^a   Soto Montenegro, M L ^a,b   Lage, E ^a   Desco, M ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE SALUD MENTAL CIBERSAM   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bow tie; FBP; Filtered backprojection; Noise reduction; PET reconstruction; Sinogram filtering

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NOISE ABATEMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

BOW TIE; CUBIC INTERPOLATION; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; FILTERING STRATEGIES; IMAGE QUALITY ENHANCEMENTS; NOISE AMPLIFICATION; PET RECONSTRUCTION; SINOGRAMS;

LOW PASS FILTERS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTER; FILTRATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; KERNEL METHOD; MOUSE; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SINOGRAM;

RODENTIA;

EID: 65449125368     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3096707     Document Type: Article

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