Maximum-Likelihood Reconstruction of Transmission Images in Emission Computed Tomography via the EM Algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 89-101

  Ollinger, John M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING;

ACCIDENTAL COINCIDENCES; COMPTON SCATTER; EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHM; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD RECONSTRUCTION; NEWTON'S METHOD; TRANSMISSION IMAGES;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0028392927     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.276147     Document Type: Article

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