Poisson noise obscures hypometabolic lesions in PET

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 541-549

  Kerr, Wesley T ^a   Lau, Edward P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Hypometabolism; Neuroradiology; Positron emission tomography; Reconstruction; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACK PROPAGATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN METABOLISM; HYPERMETABOLISM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROIMAGING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84871596338     PISSN: 00440086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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