A statistical model for positron emission tomography

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 80, Issue 389, 1985, Pages 8-20

  Vardi, Y ^a   Shepp, L A ^a   Kaufman, L ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Estimation; Image reconstruction; Incomplete data; Least squares; Maximum likelihood; Nuclear medicine; Poisson point process; Stein type estimators

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010293907     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1985.10477119     Document Type: Article

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