Improved nuclear medicine uniformity assessment with noise texture analysis

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 169-174

  Nelson, Jeffrey S ^a   Christianson, Olav I ^a   Harkness, Beth A ^b   Madsen, Mark T ^c   Mah, Eugene ^d   Thomas, Stephen R ^e   Zaidi, Habib ^f,g,h   Samei, Ehsan ⁱ  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^f GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

ⁱ DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Noise power spectrum; Quality assurance; Quantitative analysis; Uniformity; camera

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CENTRAL FIELD OF VIEW; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMMA CAMERA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; NOISE TEXTURE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE UNIFORMITY ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUND ANALYSIS; SOUND RELATED PHENOMENA; STRUCTURED NOISE INDEX; USEFUL FIELD OF VIEW; VISION; Γ CAMERA; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; UNIFORMITY;

Γ CAMERA; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNIFORMITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84894711184     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.113.125450     Document Type: Article

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