An investigation of the trade-off between the count level and image quality in myocardial perfusion SPECT using simulated images: The effects of statistical noise and object variability on defect detectability

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 4949-4961

  He, Xin ^a   Links, Jonathan M ^a,b   Frey, Eric C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; MYOCARDIUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 78149328407     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/17/005     Document Type: Article

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