Evaluating image denoising methods in myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Skiadopoulos, S ^a   Karatrantou, A ^a   Korfiatis, P ^a   Costaridou, L ^a   Vassilakos, P ^a   Apostolopoulos, D ^a   Panayiotakis, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Butterworth filter; Image denoising; Multi scale platelet analysis; Myocardial perfusion; SPECT imaging

Indexed keywords

BUTTERWORTH FILTERS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFECTS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; PLATELETS; PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; IMAGE DENOISING METHODS; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; MULTI-SCALE PLATELET ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; SPECT IMAGING;

IMAGE DENOISING;

EID: 70350683508     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/20/10/104023     Document Type: Article

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