Joint reconstruction of image and motion in gated positron emission tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1892-1906

  Blume, Moritz ^a,b   Martinez Möller, Axel ^c   Keil, Andreas ^b   Navab, Nassir ^b   Rafecas, Magdalena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gating; motion compensation; positron emission tomography (PET); reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ART IMAGE; B-SPLINE; COMPENSATION METHOD; DEFORMATION FIELD; FLOW TECHNIQUES; GATING; INTRINSIC MOTIONS; MEASURED DATA; MOTION INFORMATION; MOTION MEASUREMENTS; MOTION MODELS; RECONSTRUCTION; REGISTRATION METHODS;

DEFORMATION; ELECTRONS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MOTION COMPENSATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; POSITRONS; SPLINES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HEART; HEART CONTRACTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOVEMENT; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78149244777     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2053212     Document Type: Article

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