Generalized algorithms for direct reconstruction of parametric images from dynamic PET data

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1717-1726

  Wang, Guobao ^a   Qi, Jinyi ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction; Kinetic modeling; Parametric imaging; Penalized maximum likelihood.

Indexed keywords

DIRECT FORMULATION; DIRECT METHOD; DYNAMIC PET; GENERALIZED ALGORITHMS; INDIRECT METHODS; KINETIC FITTING; KINETIC MODELING; KINETIC MODELS; PARAMETRIC IMAGE; PARAMETRIC IMAGING; PENALIZED LIKELIHOOD; PENALIZED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD.; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; SINOGRAMS; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES;

ALGORITHMS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPAIR; SIMULATORS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 70350752316     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2021851     Document Type: Article

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