Noise spatial nonuniformity and the impact of statistical image reconstruction in CT myocardial perfusion imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4079-4092

  Lauzier, Pascal Thériault ^a   Tang, Jie ^a   Speidel, Michael A ^a   Chen, Guang Hong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac CT; computed tomography; iterative reconstruction; myocardial perfusion imaging; statistical reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PHANTOMS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS;

CARDIAC CT; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHM; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING (MPI); STATISTICAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; STATISTICAL RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84864223319     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4722983     Document Type: Article

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