2010
Deformable left‐ventricle mesh model for motion‐compensated filtering in cardiac gated SPECT
Marin T, Brankov J. Deformable left‐ventricle mesh model for motion‐compensated filtering in cardiac gated SPECT. Medical Physics 2010, 37: 5471-5481. PMID: 21089783, PMCID: PMC2962663, DOI: 10.1118/1.3483098.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCardiac gated SPECTMesh modelNoise reductionMotion-compensated filteringCardiac gated SPECT imagingDeformable mesh modelTested clinical dataSignal-to-noise ratioMotion estimationMotion blurring artifactsEstimated motionImage-reconstruction methodsProcessing algorithmsSpatiotemporal filtering methodSpatiotemporal filteringMotion trajectoryFiltering approachMyocardium motionFiltering methodReduce noiseImage qualityTemporal correlationProcessing techniquesNoisePhoton data
2009
Motion-compensated temporal summation of cardiac gated SPECT images using a deformable mesh model
Marin T, Wernick M, Yang Y, Brankov J. Motion-compensated temporal summation of cardiac gated SPECT images using a deformable mesh model. Annual International Conference Of The IEEE Engineering In Medicine And Biology Society (EMBC) 2009, 2009: 3657-3660. PMID: 19964313, PMCID: PMC2810283, DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2009.5333693.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAlgorithmsCardiac-Gated Imaging TechniquesCardiac-Gated Single-Photon Emission Computer-Assisted TomographyComputer SimulationHeartHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedImaging, Three-DimensionalModels, StatisticalMotionPhantoms, ImagingRadiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-AssistedTomography, Emission-Computed, Single-PhotonConceptsDeformable mesh modelMotion blurring artifactsMesh modelCardiac gated SPECT imagingCardiac gated SPECTEstimating heart motionHeart motionNoisy imagesMotion estimationNoise reduction performanceTime dimensionEstimated motionBlurring artifactsIndividual framesPartial volume effectsNoise reductionQuantitative evaluationReduction performanceImagesNoiseSPECT imagesStatic SPECT imagesArtifactsFrameGate sequences
2008
Motion Compensated Spatio-Temporal Filtering of Cardiac Gated SPECT Images
Marin T, Wernick M, Yang Y, Brankov J. Motion Compensated Spatio-Temporal Filtering of Cardiac Gated SPECT Images. 2008, 3734-3737. DOI: 10.1109/nssmic.2008.4774211.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMotion estimationTemporal filteringMotion estimation algorithmCardiac gated SPECT imagingTemporal filtering methodsCardiac gated SPECTDeformable mesh modelSpatio-temporal filteringNoise reduction methodLow photon countsMotion blurHeart wall thickeningProcessing algorithmsEstimation algorithmMesh modelReconstructed imagesMyocardium motionFiltering methodAlgorithmGated SPECTGated SPECT imagingHeart motionFilterReduction methodImages