Improved Iterative Image Reconstruction with Automatic Noise Artifact Suppression

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 21-27

  Tanaka, Eiichi ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY--MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

CONVOLUTION BACKPROJECTION METHOD; DAMPING MATRIX; FILTERED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; HOFFMAN PHANTOM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0026840011     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.126906     Document Type: Article

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