A projector, back-projector pair which accounts for the two-dimensional depth and distance dependent blurring in SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 681-686

  Penney, Bill C ^a   King, Michael A ^a   Knesaurek, Karin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING--ALGORITHMS;

GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ROUTINES; SINGLE-PHOTON-EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0025416078     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.106698     Document Type: Article

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