Bayesian reconstruction and use of anatomical a priori information for emission tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 673-686

  Bowsher, James E ^a   Johnson, Valen E ^a   Turkington, Timothy G ^a   Jaszczak, Ronald J ^a   Floyd Jr , Carey E ^a   Edward Coleman, R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBABILITY;

ANATOMICAL INFORMATION; BAYESIAN METHOD; EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030270955     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.538945     Document Type: Article

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