Collimator optimization in SPECT based on a joint detection and localization task

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 4423-4437

  Zhou, Lili ^a   Gindi, Gene ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2D OBJECTS; DETECTION TASKS; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; IDEAL OBSERVERS; IMAGING CHAINS; JOINT DETECTION; LOW ENERGIES; LOWER RESOLUTION; OPTIMAL DESIGN; PHOTON NOISE; SINOGRAM DATA; SINOGRAMS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TASK-BASED;

DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL DETECTION;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 70349576327     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/14/005     Document Type: Article

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