Vector-Extrapolated Fast Maximum Likelihood Estimation Algorithms for Emission Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 9-20

  Rajeevan, N ^a   Rajgopal, K ^a   Krishna, G ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING--ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING--RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS;

EMISSION COMPUTED TOMORAPHY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; MINIMAL POLYNOMIAL EXTRAPOLATED ML ALGORITHMS; NEWTON-RAPHSON SEARCH ALGORITHM; REDUCED RANK EXTRAPOLATED ML ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0026837511     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.126905     Document Type: Article

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