A spatio-temporal deconvolution method to improve perfusion CT quantification

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1182-1191

  He, Lili ^a   Orten, Burkay ^b   Do, Synho ^a   Karl, W Clem ^b   Kambadakone, Avinish ^a   Sahani, Dushyant V ^a   Pien, Homer ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Deconvolution; Perfusion computed tomography (CT); Singular value decomposition; Spatial and temporal correlations

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL INPUT FUNCTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECONVOLUTION METHOD; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; ILL POSED PROBLEM; IMAGE NOISE; PERFUSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT); PERFUSION IMAGING; RECTAL CANCER; REGION OF INTEREST; RESIDUE FUNCTIONS; SHOW THROUGH; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CORRELATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL;

CONVOLUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PERFUSION; TIME;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PERFUSION; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77951846052     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2043536     Document Type: Article

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