A Unified Analysis of Exact Methods of Inverting the 2-D Exponential Radon Transform, with Implications for Noise Control in SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 643-658

  Metz, Charles E ^a   Pan, Xiaochuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EXACT METHODS; NOISE CONTROL; RADON TRANSFORM; SINGLE PHOTON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SINOGRAM; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029521071     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.476106     Document Type: Article

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