AB-OSEM reconstruction for improved Patlak kinetic parameter estimation: A simulation study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 6739-6757

  Verhaeghe, Jeroen ^a   Reader, Andrew J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; COLD REGIONS; COMPETING ALGORITHMS; CURRENT ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC IMAGING; DYNAMIC PET; FORWARD MODELS; HIGH-RESOLUTION RESEARCH TOMOGRAPH; ITERATION NUMBERS; LOWER BOUNDS; NON-NEGATIVITY; OSEM RECONSTRUCTION; PARAMETRIC IMAGE; PARAMETRIC IMAGING; POSITIVE BIAS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SIMULATION STUDIES; STANDARD DEVIATION;

ALGORITHMS; KINETIC PARAMETERS; METAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; IMAGE PROCESSING; KINETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BRAIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78650010663     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/22/009     Document Type: Article

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