PET image reconstruction with anatomical edge guided level set prior

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 6899-6918

  Cheng Liao, Jinxiu ^a   Qi, Jinyi ^a  

^a Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL IMAGES; BOUNDARY INFORMATION; CT IMAGE; DIGITAL PHANTOMS; EDGE DETECTION ALGORITHMS; FUNCTIONAL IMAGES; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET FUNCTIONS; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI RECONSTRUCTION; PET IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PET IMAGES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE MATCHING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMALS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MICE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80054802667     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/21/009     Document Type: Article

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