Fast Gradient-Based Methods for Bayesian Reconstruction of Transmission and Emission PET Images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 687-701

  Mumcuoğlu, Erkan Ü ^a   Leahy, Richard ^a   Zhou, Zhenyu ^a   Cherry, Simon R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN FORMULATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD RECONSTRUCTION; STANDARD ATTENUATION CORRECTION FACTORS; TRANSMISSION SINOGRAMS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0028711560     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.363099     Document Type: Article

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