A System for the 3D Reconstruction of Retracted-Septa PET Data Using the EM Algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1223-1227

  Johnson, Calvin A ^a   Yan, Yuchen ^b   Carson, Richard E ^c   Martino, Robert L ^c   Daube Witherspoon, Margaret E ^c  

^a Division of Computer Research and Technology   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TABLE LOOKUP; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ASYNCHRONOUS READS; BASE-SYMMETRY ANGLES; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; IMAGE INDEXING; PARALLEL COMPUTER; RETRACTED-SEPTA SCANNERS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029359456     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.467875     Document Type: Article

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