Spatial resolution properties of penalized-likelihood image reconstruction: Space-invariant tomographs

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1346-1358

  Fessler, Jeffrey A ^a,b   Rogers, W Leslie ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; LOCAL IMPULSE RESPONSE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; PENALIZED LIKELIHOOD METHOD; QUADRATIC ROUGHNESS PENALTY; REGULARIZATION PARAMETER; SPACE INVARIANT TOMOGRAPHY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION PROPERTIES;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0030241912     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.535846     Document Type: Article

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