Maximum—likelihood reconstruction for single-photon emission computed—tomography

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1985, Pages 769-778

  Miller, Michael I ^a   Snyder, Donald L ^b   Miller, Tom R ^c  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering ^*  (United States)

^b Institute for Biomedical Computing ^*  (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CAMERAS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING - ALGORITHMS; GAMMA RAYS - DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GAMMA RAY CAMERAS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED-TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0021370790     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.1985.4336939     Document Type: Article

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