Accelerated Iterative Reconstruction for Positron Emission Tomography Based on the EM Algorithm for Maximum Likelihood Estimation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 16-22

  Lewitt, Robert M ^a   Muehllehner, Gerd ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING - ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING - RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - ITERATIVE METHODS;

HEXAGONAL DETECTOR SYSTEM FOR PET; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RECONSTRUCTED-IMAGE NONNEGATIVITY; RECONSTRUCTED-IMAGE SELF-NORMALIZATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0022683404     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.1986.4307734     Document Type: Article

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