Analysis and comparison of two methods for motion correction in PET imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 6474-6483

  Polycarpou, I ^a   Tsoumpas, C ^a   Marsden, P K ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

image transformation; motion correction; positron emission tomography; reconstruction; respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; POSITRONS; RAPID THERMAL ANNEALING;

IMAGE TRANSFORMATIONS; INTERPOLATION ERROR; MOTION CORRECTION; NUMBER OF ITERATIONS; ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84867305643     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4754586     Document Type: Article

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