Simultaneous measurement of noise and spatial resolution in PET phantom images

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1069-1081

  Lodge, Martin A ^a   Rahmim, Arman ^a   Wahl, Richard L ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRECTION ALGORITHMS; DATA COLLECTION; FIELD OF VIEWS; FIXED NUMBERS; FOURIER TECHNIQUES; IMAGE NOISE; LOWER NOISE; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION; NOISE LEVELS; NOISE MEASUREMENTS; PHANTOM IMAGES; RANDOM COINCIDENCES; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STANDARD DEVIATION;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; GERMANIUM; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EDGE DETECTION;

GERMANIUM; RADIOISOTOPE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GERMANIUM; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 76149098883     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/4/011     Document Type: Article

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