An expectation maximization reconstruction algorithm for emission tomography with non-uniform entropy prior

International Journal of Bio-Medical Computing

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 299-310

  Noumeir, Rita ^a   Mailloux, Guy E ^a   Lemieux, Raymond ^a  

^a Service de médecine nucléaire Hôpital du Sacré Coeur de Montréal 5400 boul Gouin ouest Montréal Québec H4J 1C5 Canada ^*

Author keywords

Bayesian image reconstruction; Emission tomography; Iterative algorithm; Non uniform entropy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BAYES THEOREM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0029160013     PISSN: 00207101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0020-7101(95)01111-Q     Document Type: Article

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