Fast Methods for Including Attenuation in the EM Algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 754-758

  Hebert, Thomas J ^a   Leahy, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--ALGORITHMS; PHOTONS--EMISSION; PROBABILITY;

LOOKUP TABLES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SINGLE-PHOTON-EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0025414329     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.106710     Document Type: Article

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