Task-oriented quantitative image reconstruction in emission tomography for single- and multi-subject studies

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 7263-7285

  Verhaeghe, Jeroen ^a   Gravel, Paul ^a   Reader, Andrew J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D IMAGING; BOOTSTRAP RE-SAMPLING TECHNIQUES; CRITICAL STEPS; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; GROUND TRUTH; GROUP SIZE; ITERATION NUMBERS; MEASURED DATA; MONTE CARLO; MULTI-SUBJECT STUDIES; OPTIMALITY CRITERIA; ORDERED SUBSET EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; OSEM RECONSTRUCTION; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; RADIOACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SELECTION RULES; SIMULATION STUDIES; TASK-BASED; VARIANT SELECTION;

ESTIMATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTIMIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78650022475     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/23/006     Document Type: Article

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