Performance Evaluation of an Iterative Image Reconstruction Algorithm for Positron Emission Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 336-346

  Herman, Gabor T ^a   Odhner, Dewey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING - RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY - RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI PROBABILITY; NEUROANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; POISSON NOISE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0026222685     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.97583     Document Type: Article

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