Spatial resolution properties of motion-compensated tomographic image reconstruction methods

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1413-1425

  Chun, Se Young ^a   Fessler, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Isotropic and uniform spatial resolution; motion compensated image reconstruction; nonrigid motion; quadratic regularization; regularization design

Indexed keywords

DESIGN METHOD; HETEROSCEDASTIC; LOCAL MOTIONS; MOTION ARTIFACT; MOTION MODELS; NON-RIGID MOTION; NONUNIFORM; POISSON LIKELIHOOD; QUADRATIC REGULARIZATION; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SMALL LESIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

DESIGN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

IMAGE RESOLUTION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84863424615     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2192133     Document Type: Article

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