RESTORATION AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE IMAGES

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dc.creatorWENDT, RICHARD ERNEST, III
dc.date.accessioned2007-05-09T19:31:29Z
dc.date.available2007-05-09T19:31:29Z
dc.date.issued1982
dc.description.abstractThe nuclear medicine physician uses visual interpretation of a movie-like display of the beating human heart to detect wall motion abnormalities which might be related to impaired cardiac function. The present work is directed toward extracting more information from the heart motion study, and presenting it in a useful manner. A spatially adaptive smoothing routine using a quadtree image representation gives an improvement in mean squared error compared to the "S9" smoother commonly used for nuclear medicine studies. Functional images show the two-dimensional distribution of parameters of the heart motion. The most popular, the first harmonic phase functional image, formed from the first Fourier harmonic fit to each pixel time-activity curve, is subject to significant artifacts which make a simple interpretation of it difficult. A multi-harmonic approximation is more accurate and offers a wealth of unique parameters with which to construct more directly meaningful functional images.
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dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS E.E. 1982 WENDT
dc.identifier.citationWENDT, RICHARD ERNEST, III. "RESTORATION AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE IMAGES." (1982) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/15727">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/15727</a>.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/15727
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectElectronics
dc.subjectElectrical engineering
dc.titleRESTORATION AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE IMAGES
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thesis.degree.departmentElectrical Engineering
thesis.degree.disciplineEngineering
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy
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