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Medical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 1273-1284

  Tsui, Beniamin M W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

iterative reconstruction; SPECT reconstruction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE;

CONVERGENT SOLUTIONS; GAUSSIAN NOISE MODEL; GRADIENT RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES;

PIXELS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029148153     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597614     Document Type: Article

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