Properties and mitigation of edge artifacts in PSF-based PET reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 58, Issue 5 PART 1, 2011, Pages 2264-2275

  Tong, Shan ^a   Alessio, Adam M ^a   Thielemans, Kris ^b   Stearns, Charles ^c   Ross, Steve ^c   Kinahan, Paul E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United Kingdom)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction; positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

2D SIMULATIONS; EDGE ARTIFACTS; IMAGING MATRICES; INTENSITY TRANSITIONS; MITIGATION METHODS; NULL SPACE; PATIENT DATA; POSITRON EMISSION; RECONSTRUCTION KERNEL;

FREQUENCY BANDS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LOW PASS FILTERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

EID: 80054055198     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2011.2164579     Document Type: Article

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