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Dynamic medical imaging as a partial inverse problem.
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PMID:  17271853     Owner:  NLM     Status:  PubMed-not-MEDLINE    
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Dynamic medical imaging problems are typically structured as "partial" inverse problems: the desired time series of images (a spatiotemporal matrix) is subject to a purely spatial transformation (its product with a transfer matrix) - so that the forward operator does not address all of the variables of the function to be transformed (analogous to partial differentiation, which is also a partial inverse problem). Given that the transfer matrix is ill-conditioned, the problem of providing the image sequence requires regularization. Under rather general conditions applicable to the setting of partial inverse problems, the regularization parameter of Tikhonov regularization generalizes to a regularization parameter operator, which in proper combination with a standard (spatial) Tikhonov regularizing operator describes the minimum-mean-square-error estimate analogously to that of the Bayesian interpretation of Tikhonov regularization as applied to a "complete" inverse problem. This is in distinction to usual methodology employed for dynamic imaging problems, including usual applications of Tikhonov regularization in this realm, which cannot similarly supply the minimum-mean-square-estimate (under the stated general conditions). The potential power of the implied methodology is illustrated with a numerical example - indicating that substantial improvements in solution estimation are possible.
Authors:
Fred Greensite
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Type:  Journal Article    
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Title:  Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference     Volume:  2     ISSN:  1557-170X     ISO Abbreviation:  Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc     Publication Date:  2004  
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Created Date:  2007-02-02     Completed Date:  2007-05-14     Revised Date:  -    
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Nlm Unique ID:  101243413     Medline TA:  Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc     Country:  United States    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1014-7     Citation Subset:  -    
Affiliation:
Dept. of Radiol. Sci., California Univ., Irvine, CA, USA.
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