SPECT data acquisition and image reconstruction in a stationary small animal SPECT/MRI system

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Xu, Jingyan ^a   Chen, Si ^a   Yu, Jianhua ^a   Meier, Dirk ^b   Wagenaar, Douglas J ^b   Patt, Bradley E ^b   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a  

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

^b Ideas Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic SPECT; Geometric response function compensation; Image reconstruction; MRI; Multi modality imaging; Multi pinhole collimator; SPECT; Stationary small animal SPECT

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC SPECT; GEOMETRIC RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; MULTI-MODALITY IMAGING; MULTI-PINHOLE COLLIMATORS; SMALL ANIMAL SPECT; SPECT;

ANIMALS; DATA ACQUISITION; DETECTORS; DYNAMICS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; Z TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 80052922414     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.845504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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