Incorporation of Correlated Structural Images in PET Image Reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 627-640

  Ouyang, Xiaolong ^a   Wong, Wing H ^b   Johnson, Valen E ^c   Hu, Xiaoping ^d   Chen, Chin Tu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY;

BAYESIAN METHOD; BOUNDARY INFORMATION; CORRELATED STRUCTURAL IMAGES; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKEHOOD APPROACH; WEIGHTED LINE SITE;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0028722361     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.363105     Document Type: Article

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