The Mutual Information Criterion for SPECT Aperture Evaluation and Design

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1989, Pages 322-336

  Shao, Lingxiong ^a   Hero, Alfred O ^a   Leslie Rogers, W ^b   Clinthorne, Neal H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Michigan ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; PROBABILITY; RADIOGRAPHY--GAMMA RAY;

APERTURE OPTIMIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL ENTROPY FUNCTIONS; MUTUAL INFORMATION CRITERION; PARALLEL-SLICE SPRINT II SYSTEM; SINGLE-PHOTON-EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPECT APERTURE EVALUATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0024877399     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.41485     Document Type: Article

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