A SVD-based method to assess the uniqueness and accuracy of SPECT geometrical calibration

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1929-1939

  Ma, Tianyu ^a,b   Yao, Rutao ^a   Shao, Yiping ^a,c   Zhou, Rong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometrical calibration; Jacobian matrix; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); Singular value decomposition (SVD); Slit slat collimator

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; CALIBRATION ACCURACY; CALIBRATION CONFIGURATION; CALIBRATION METHOD; CALIBRATION PARAMETERS; CALIBRATION PROBLEMS; CALIBRATION PROTOCOLS; CENTER OF ROTATION; CT IMAGING; CT SYSTEM; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ESTIMATION ERRORS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FIGURE OF MERIT; GENERAL METHOD; GEOMETRICAL CALIBRATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; LEAST SQUARES; NONSINGULARITY; NUMERICAL SIMULATION STUDIES; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OPTIMIZED SYSTEM; POINT SOURCES; PROJECTION SAMPLING; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SLAT COLLIMATORS; SLIT APERTURES; SLIT-SLAT COLLIMATOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECT SYSTEM;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SENSORS; JACOBIAN MATRICES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; ROTATION; SECURITY OF DATA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350553232     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2025696     Document Type: Article

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