Acceleration of Maximum Likelihood Reconstruction, Using Frequency Amplification and Attenuation Compensation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 643-652

  Nuyts, Johan ^a   Mortelmans, Luc ^a   Suetens, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AMPLIFICATION; ATTENUATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ATTENUATION COMPENSATION; ECT IMAGES; FREQUENCY AMPLIFICATION; HEURISTIC ACCELERATION METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0027884502     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.251114     Document Type: Article

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