Expectation maximization reconstruction of positron emission tomography images using anatomical magnetic resonance information

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 129-136

  Lipinski, B ^a,b,c   Herzog, H ^a,b,c   Rota Kops, E ^a,b,c   Oberschelp, W ^a,b,c   Muller Gartner H W ^a,b,c  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Em reconstruction; MRI; PET

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCINTISCANNING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; GAUSS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION (EM) ALGORITHM; MARKOV GEM ALGORITHM; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI (MAP) ESTIMATOR;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031106954     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.563658     Document Type: Article

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