Impact on image noise of incorporating detector blurring into image reconstruction for a small animal PET scanner

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2769-2776

  Lee, Kisung ^a   Miyaoka, Robert S ^b   Lewellen, Tom K ^b   Alessio, Adam M ^b   Kinahan, Paul E ^b  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Detector blurring; Fourier rebinning; Noise property; Ordered subsets expectation maximization (OSEM); Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

3D ACQUISITION; DETECTOR BLURRING; FOURIER REBINNING; GAUSSIAN SMOOTHING; IMAGE NOISE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; MEASURED DATA; NOISE CHARACTERISTIC; NOISE PROPERTIES; NOISE PROPERTY; NONSTATIONARY; ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION (OSEM); ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; PET SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS; SIMULATION STUDIES; SMALL ANIMAL PET SCANNERS; STATISTICAL NOISE; UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; OPTIMIZATION; POSITRONS; REPAIR; SCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 70350170097     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2021610     Document Type: Article

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