On the Convergence of an EM-type Algorithm for Penalized Likelihood Estimation in Emission Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 762-765

  De Pierro, Alvaro R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ESTIMATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; PENALIZED LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; REGULARIZATION TERMS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0029540701     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.476119     Document Type: Article

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