Super-resolution in respiratory synchronized positron emission tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 438-448

  Wallach, Daphné ^a   Lamare, Frédéric ^b,c   Kontaxakis, Giorgos ^d,e   Visvikis, Dimitris ^a  

^a Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

^b BORDEAUX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Four dimensional (4 D) positron emission tomography; respiratory motion; super resolution

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION TIME; B-SPLINE; DATA SETS; EDGE PRESERVING; ELASTIC REGISTRATION ALGORITHM; HUBER REGULARIZATIONS; LESION SIZE; LOW RESOLUTION IMAGES; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; MOTION FIELDS; PET IMAGES; RECONSTRUCTION MATRIX; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; SEQUENCE OF IMAGES; SUPER RESOLUTION; SUPER RESOLUTION ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS; MOTION COMPENSATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECOVERY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84856756269     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2011.2171358     Document Type: Article

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