Reliability of predicting image signal-to-noise ratio using noise equivalent count rate in PET imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 5891-5900

  Chang, Tingting ^a   Chang, Guoping ^a   Clark, John W ^a   Diab, Rami H ^b   Rohren, Eric ^c   Mawlawi, Osama R ^c  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

image quality; noise equivalent count rate; PET; signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; PHANTOMS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING;

3D ORDERED SUBSET EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; 3D ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; 3D REPROJECTION; ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; IMAGE SIGNAL; NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNT RATES; PHANTOMS; RATE SIGNALS; RECONSTRUCTION PARAMETERS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84867284410     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4750053     Document Type: Article

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