A method for energy window optimization for quantitative tasks that includes the effects of model-mismatch on bias: Application to Y-90 bremsstrahlung SPECT imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3711-3725

  Rong, Xing ^a   Du, Yong ^a   Frey, Eric C ^a  

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE; ABSORBED ENERGY; ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREMSSTRAHLUNG IMAGING; DIGITAL PHANTOMS; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; ENERGY WINDOWS; FIGURE OF MERITS; GAMMA PHOTONS; GENERAL SITUATION; HUMAN ANATOMY; IMAGE DEGRADING; IMAGE FORMATION PROCESS; IMAGING PARAMETERS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; ONE-FACTOR; PER UNIT; PHOTOPEAKS; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SEPTAL PENETRATION; SPECT IMAGING; SPECT SYSTEM; TARGETED RADIONUCLIDE THERAPIES; UNBIASED ESTIMATOR; VOLUME OF INTEREST; YTTRIUM-90;

ESTIMATION; MICROSPHERES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS; RELIABILITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS; YTTRIUM;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; YTTRIUM;

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GAMMA CAMERA; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION SCATTERING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; YTTRIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 84862021636     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/12/3711     Document Type: Article

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