A focus-of-attention preprocessing scheme for em-ml pet reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 218-223

  Gregor, Jens ^a   Huff, Dean A ^a  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Expectation maximization; Image reconstruction; Parallel computing; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ALGORITHM; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; THORAX;

ABDOMEN; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD (EMML) ALGORITHM; SIMULATED PHANTOMS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031106961     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.563667     Document Type: Article

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