A Maximum A Posteriori Probability Expectation Maximization Algorithm for Image Reconstruction in Emission Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1987, Pages 185-192

  Levitan, Emanuel ^a,b   Herman, Gabor T ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; X-RAYS - APPLICATIONS;

EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE ARTIFACT;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0023421482     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.1987.4307826     Document Type: Article

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