Evaluation of three MRI-based anatomical priors for quantitative PET brain imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 599-612

  Vunckx, Kathleen ^a   Atre, Ameya ^a   Baete, Kristof ^a   Reilhac, Anthonin ^b,c   Deroose, Christophe M ^a   Van Laere, Koen ^a   Nuyts, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^c AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anatomical priors; image reconstruction; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); positron emission tomography (PET); quantitative accuracy

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL IMAGES; ANATOMICAL INFORMATION; ANATOMICAL PRIORS; BRAIN IMAGES; BRAIN IMAGING; CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FDG PET; IMAGING MODALITY; JOINT ENTROPY; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATORS; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; POSITION DEPENDENTS; POSITRON EMISSION; PRIORI DISTRIBUTION; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; QUANTITATIVE PET; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SIDE INFORMATION;

ENTROPY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

NEUROIMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84857982141     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2011.2173766     Document Type: Article

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