Noise and Edge Artifacts in Maximum-Likelihood Reconstructions for Emission Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1987, Pages 228-238

  Snyder, Donald L ^a   Miller, Michael I ^a   Thomas, Lewis J ^a   Politte, David G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING - IMAGE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY;

EDGE ARTIFACTS; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD RECONSTRUCTIONS; NOISE ARTIFACTS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0023422273     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.1987.4307831     Document Type: Article

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