Improved Lesion Detection in SPECT using MLEM Reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 780-783

  Tourassi, Georgia D ^a   Floyd, Carey E ^a   Munley, Michael T ^a   Bowsher, James E ^b   Coleman, R Edward ^b  

^a Department of Biomedical Engineering ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONS - EMISSION; PROBABILITY;

FILTERED BACKPROJECTION; SPECT IMAGES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0026141024     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.289390     Document Type: Article

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