Adaptive imaging for lesion detection using a zoom-in PET system

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 119-130

  Zhou, Jian ^a   Qi, Jinyi ^a  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive imaging; image reconstruction; lesion detection; positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMAGING; COMPUTER OBSERVERS; DETECTABILITY; DETECTION TASKS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION DEPTH; LESION DETECTABILITY; LESION DETECTION; MICROPET; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NEW SYSTEM; OPTIMAL POSITION; POSITRON EMISSION; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; SENSITIVITY IMAGE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYSTEM DESIGN; TARGET REGIONS; UNIQUE FEATURES;

DETECTORS; ELECTRONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTIMIZATION; POSITRONS; SCANNING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 78650924373     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2064173     Document Type: Article

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