Pre Reconstruction Restoration of SPECT Projection Images by a Neural Network

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 1620-1625

  Gopal, S Sanjay ^a   Hebert, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPTON SCATTER; ERROR FUNCTION MINIMIZATION; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION ALGORITHMS; GAUSSIAN BLUR; HOPFIELD NETWORK; IMAGE DEGRADATION; POISSON NOISE; RADON TRANSFORMS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARD DEVIATION;

ATTENUATION; CAMERAS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTONS; PROJECTION SYSTEMS; STATISTICS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0028493565     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.322958     Document Type: Article

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