Statistical analysis of maximum likelihood estimator images of human brain FDG PET studies

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 215-231

  Llacer, Jorge ^a   Veklerov, E ^a   Coakley, Kevin J ^b   Hoffman, Edward J ^c   Nunez, Jorge ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Statistical Engineering Division of Standards and Technology ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIOISOTOPES; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

FILTERED BACKPROJECTION; FLUORODEOXIGLUCOSE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; METHOD OF SIEVES; MONTE CARLO TRANSITION MATRICES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0027609687     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.232250     Document Type: Article

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