Penalized Weighted Least-Squares image Reconstruction for Positron Emission Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 290-300

  Fessler, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

PENALIZED WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES (PWLS); POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET);

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0028446166     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.293921     Document Type: Article

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