Localization of temporal epilepsy foci by subtraction ictal perfusion single photon emission computed tomography is enhanced when using 3D-OSEM iterative reconstruction

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 846-853

  Mahmoud, Sinan Ben ^a,d   Maillard, Louis ^a,d,e   Poussier, Sylvain ^a,d,f   Koessler, Laurent ^a,b,f   El Khawaja, Mohamed Safa ^b,c,d,f   Laurens, Marie H ^a,d   Vespignani, Hervé ^a,d,e   Karcher, Gilles ^a,d   Marie, Pierre Y ^a,d,f  

^a Department of Nuclear Medicine ^*

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^c CRLCC Nancy Centre Alexis Vautrin   (Turkey)

^d Faculté de Mé Decine   (Canada)

^e CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN AUTOMATIQUE DE NANCY   (France)

^f INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Filtered back projection; Subtraction ictal brain spect; Subtraction ictal spect coregistered to mri; Temporal epilepsy; Three dimensional ordered subset expectation maximization

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL ORDERED SUBSET EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73249121630     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e32832ebb09     Document Type: Article

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