A novel approach for direct reconstruction of parametric images for myocardial blood flow from PET imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Su, Kuan Hao ^a,b   Yen, Tzu Chen ^a   Fang, Yu Hua Dean ^b  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Direct reconstruction; Parametric image

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CURVE FITTING; EFFICIENCY; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KINETIC PARAMETERS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PIXELS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTATION EFFICIENCY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MYOCARDIAL BLOOD FLOW; PARAMETRIC IMAGE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; TIME-ACTIVITY CURVES; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CURVE FITTING; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KINETICS; NOISE; PERFORMANCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRODUCTIVITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; TIME; METHODOLOGY;

CORONARY CIRCULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84885759391     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4819822     Document Type: Article

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