Distributed 3-D Iterative Reconstruction for Quantitative SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1301-1309

  Ju, Z W ^a   Frey, E C ^b   Tsui, B M W ^c  

^a Departments of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^b Radiology The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROJECTION SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0029360062     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.467865     Document Type: Article

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