A Theoretical Study of Some Maximum Likelihood Algorithms for Emission and Transmission Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 106-114

  Lange, Kenneth ^a   Bahn, Mark ^a   Little, Roderick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY;

BAYESIAN PRIOR; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATES; TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0023363121     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.1987.4307810     Document Type: Article

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