Iterative deconvolution of simultaneous 99mTc and 201Tl projection data measured on a CdZnTe-based cardiac SPECT scanner

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1397-1414

  Kacperski, Krzysztof ^a,b   Erlandsson, Kjell ^a   Ben Haim, Simona ^a   Hutton, Brian F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; ATTENUATION EFFECT; CARDIAC SPECT; CROSSTALK EFFECT; DEFECT CONTRAST; ENERGY WINDOWS; IMAGE NOISE; ITERATIVE DECONVOLUTION; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; MODEL EQUATIONS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION; PATIENT DATA; PHOTO PEAKS; PIXELLATED DETECTORS; PROJECTION DATA; PROJECTION SPACE; SPECT SCAN; SPECTRAL DISTRIBUTION; TECHNETIUM 99; TRIPLE ENERGY WINDOW;

ALGORITHMS; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CAMERAS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

CADMIUM; CDZNTE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; TECHNETIUM COMPLEX; TELLURIUM; THALLIUM; ZINC;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPECTROMETRY; TIME;

AGED; ARTIFACTS; CADMIUM; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; TELLURIUM; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; ZINC;

EID: 79951912463     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/5/012     Document Type: Article

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