Hybrid Poisson/Polynomial Objective Functions for Tomographic Image Reconstruction from Transmission Scans

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 1995, Pages 1439-1450

  Fessler, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

CONVERGING ALGORITHMS; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHM; HYBRID POISSON/POLYNOMIAL OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PENALIZED LIKELIHOOD OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; POISSON TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS; TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0029394437     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: 19410042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.465108     Document Type: Article

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