Pixel-based subsets for rapid multi-pinhole SPECT reconstruction

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2023-2034

  Branderhorst, Woutjan ^a,b   Vastenhouw, Brendan ^a,b,c,d   Beekman, Freek J ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c MILabs BV   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION FACTORS; BLOCK-ITERATIVE; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; MULTI-PINHOLE SPECT SYSTEMS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; ORDERED SUBSET EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; PINHOLE SPECT; PROJECTION DATA; SPEED-UP FACTORS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; OPTIMIZATION; PIXELS; REPAIR; SET THEORY; TOMOGRAPHY;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 76849101979     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/7/015     Document Type: Article

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