Approximate Reconstruction of Attenuation Map in SPECT Imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 1483-1488

  Bronnikov, A V ^a,b  

^a KHRISTIANOVICH INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS   (Russian Federation)

^b KEMA   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION MAP; RADON TRANSFORM; SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029388057     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.467945     Document Type: Article

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