Analysis of Noise Properties of a Class of Exact Methods of Inverting the 2-D Exponential Radon Transform

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 659-668

  Pan, Xiaochuan ^a   Metz, Charles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOACTIVITY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

AUTOCOVARIANCE; GLOBAL IMAGE VARIANCE; QUASI OPTIMAL METHOD; RADON TRANSFORM; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029505766     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.476107     Document Type: Article

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