• DocumentCode
    475583
  • Title

    Region-based maximum likelihood reconstruction for lesion quantification in positron emission tomography

  • Author

    De Bernardi, Elisabetta ; Faggiano, E. ; Zito, Felicia ; Baselli, G.

  • Author_Institution
    Bioeng. Dept., Politec. di Milano, Milan
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    14-16 July 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    An algorithm for the activity quantification inside PET oncological lesions is presented and preliminarily assessed on a sphere phantom. The strategy allows convergence to blurring recovery in the lesions avoiding noise amplification in the background.
  • Keywords
    maximum likelihood detection; phantoms; positron emission tomography; blurring recovery; lesion quantification; maximum likelihood reconstruction; positron emission tomography; sphere phantom; Positron Emission Tomography; maximum likelihood reconstruction; partial volume effect; quantification; regional basis functions;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Advances in Medical, Signal and Information Processing, 2008. MEDSIP 2008. 4th IET International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Santa Margherita Ligure
  • ISSN
    0537-9989
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-86341-934-8
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    4609115
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=475583