Efficient estimation of linear functionals in emission tomography

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 426-452

  Kuruc, Alvin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Renaissance Software Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Ill posed problems; Inverse problems; Nonparametric estimation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PHOTONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; LINEAR FUNCTIONAL ESTIMATION; RADON TRANSFORM;

RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031124076     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139995283201     Document Type: Article

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