Noise properties of motion-compensated tomographic image reconstruction methods

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 141-152

  Chun, Se Young ^a   Fessler, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Motion compensated image reconstruction; noise properties; nonrigid motion; quadratic regularization

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; JACOBIAN DETERMINANTS; MOTION CORRECTION; MOTION INFORMATION; MOTION MODELS; NOISE ANALYSIS; NOISE PROPERTIES; NON-RIGID MOTION; PARAMETRIC MOTION; POISSON MODEL; QUADRATIC REGULARIZATION; REGISTERED IMAGES; STATISTICAL WEIGHTING; TEMPORAL REGULARIZATION; THEORETICAL RESULT; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOTION COMPENSATED IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOTION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873316839     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2206604     Document Type: Article

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