A quantitative evaluation study of four-dimensional gated cardiac SPECT reconstruction

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 5643-5659

  Jin, Mingwu ^a   Yang, Yongyi ^b   Niu, Xiaofeng ^b   Marin, Thibault ^b   Brankov, Jovan G ^b   Feng, Bing ^c   Pretorius, P Hendrik ^c   King, Michael A ^c   Wernick, Miles N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4D RECONSTRUCTION; ATTENUATION ,; DEGRADING FACTORS; DETECTABILITY; GATED CARDIAC SPECT; LEFT VENTRICULAR MYOCARDIUMS; MONTE CARLO; PATIENT DATA; PERFUSION DEFECTS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS; SPATIAL SMOOTHING; SPECT IMAGING; TEMPORAL REGULARIZATION; TEMPORAL SMOOTHING; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPAIR;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART MUSCLE; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIAC-GATED SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER-ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 71049142726     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/18/019     Document Type: Article

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