Fisher information-based evaluation of image quality for time-of-flight PET

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 311-321

  Vunckx, Kathleen ^a   Zhou, Lin ^a   Matej, Samuel ^b   Defrise, Michel ^c   Nuyts, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Filtered backprojection (FBP); Fisher information; Image quality; Maximum likelihood expectation maximization (MLEM); Time of flight information in positron emission tomography (TOF PET)

Indexed keywords

FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; FISHER INFORMATION; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIME-OF-FLIGHT INFORMATION IN POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (TOF PET);

DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); GENE EXPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; OPTIMIZATION; PIXELS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS; REPAIR;

FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; THEORETICAL MODEL; THORAX;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 76249086086     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2029098     Document Type: Article

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