Maximum Likelihood Spect in Clinical Computation Times Using Mesh-Connected Parallel Computers

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 426-436

  McCarthy, A W ^a   Miller, M I ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL - PARALLEL PROCESSING; IMAGE PROCESSING - RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

BAYESIAN IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD SPECT IMAGING; SIMD DISTRIBUTED ARRAY PROCESSOR;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0026220154     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.97593     Document Type: Article

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