Implementing and Accelerating the EM Algorithm for Positron Emission Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1987, Pages 37-51

  Kaufman, Linda ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - ALGORITHMS;

EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0023314408     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.1987.4307796     Document Type: Article

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