Noise and signal properties in PSF-based fully 3D PET image reconstruction: An experimental evaluation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1453-1473

  Tong, S ^a   Alessio, A M ^a   Kinahan, P E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; CLINICAL SYSTEMS; CONTRAST RECOVERY; DIFFERENT SIZES; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FULLY 3-D PET; IMAGE NOISE; INDEPENDENT NOISE; LINE-OF-RESPONSES; LINEAR CORRELATION; MEASURED POINTS; NOISE LEVELS; NOISE PROPERTIES; NOISE TEXTURE; PET IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTIONS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION FILTERING; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; RECONSTRUCTION PARAMETERS; SIGNAL PROPERTIES; SIGNAL TO NOISE; STANDARD DEVIATION; SYSTEM MODELING; SYSTEM MODELS; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION;

GERMANIUM; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MODEL STRUCTURES; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PIXELS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPAIR; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 76849100926     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/5/013     Document Type: Article

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