Corrections for Accidental Coincidences and Attenuation in Maximum-Likelihood Image Reconstruction for Positron-Emission Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 82-89

  Politte, David G ^a   Snyder, Donald L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING - RECONSTRUCTION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY;

ACCIDENTAL COINCIDENCES; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POISSON PROCESS; REGULARIZATION CONSTRAINTS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0026121689     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.75614     Document Type: Article

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