Direct 4-D PET list mode parametric reconstruction with a novel em algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2213-2223

  Yan, Jianhua ^a,b   Planeta Wilson, Beata ^a   Carson, Richard E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Expectation maximization; image reconstruction; one tissue compartment model; parametric imaging

Indexed keywords

3-D IMAGE; ACCURATE ESTIMATION; BRAIN RECEPTORS; CLOSED FORM; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; COMPARTMENT MODEL; DATA SPACE; DIRECT METHOD; EM ALGORITHMS; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; HUMAN BRAIN; INDIRECT METHODS; LIST MODE DATA; LIST MODES; LOSS OF ACCURACY; LOWER NOISE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD FUNCTION; ORDERED SUBSETS; PARAMETRIC ALGORITHMS; PARAMETRIC IMAGE; PARAMETRIC IMAGING; PET DATA; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; TIME-ACTIVITY CURVES; VARIANCE REDUCTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KINETIC PARAMETERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE;

CURVE FITTING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84870500975     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2212451     Document Type: Article

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