Denoising of SPECT-Image Sinogram-Data Before Reconstruction
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Nuclear medicine images have low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) due to several physical limitations which degrade the image quality considerably. In this study, the Gaussian filter and the patch confidence Gaussian filter (PCG) were used to improve the image quality for Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT). The new approach applies these filtering methods on the acquired 2D-projections before reconstructing the image. The new approach was evaluated on a SPECT dataset and the performance was compared with several conventional methods presented in the literature.
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تاریخ انتشار 2014