An Iterative Image Space Reconstruction Algorithm Suitable for Volume ECT

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1986, Pages 61-66

  Daube Witherspoon, Margaret E ^a   Muehllehner, Gerd ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING - RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - ITERATIVE METHODS;

ITERATIVE IMAGE SPACE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD DECODING; POSITRON EMISSION COMPUTED-TOMOGRAPHY (PET);

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0022736170     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.1986.4307748     Document Type: Article

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