Optimization of Rb-82 PET acquisition and reconstruction protocols for myocardial perfusion defect detection

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3161-3171

  Tang, Jing ^a   Rahmim, Arman ^a   Lautamäki, Riikka ^a   Lodge, Martin A ^a   Bengel, Frank M ^a   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION TIME; AREA UNDER THE ROC CURVE; BUTTERWORTH; CHANNELIZED HOTELLING OBSERVERS; CROSS POINT; DELAY TIME; EM ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCY CHANNELS; ITERATION NUMBERS; LEFT VENTRICULAR; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION; PATIENT DATA; PET DATA; PET IMAGES; POISSON NOISE; POST-FILTERING; REALISTIC SIMULATION; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; STRESS CONDITION; TASK-BASED; TIME-ACTIVITY CURVES;

DEFECTS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPAIR; RUBIDIUM; TIME SERIES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

RUBIDIUM 82; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOISOTOPE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; RUBIDIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RUBIDIUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 67650727178     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/10/013     Document Type: Article

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