Choice of initial conditions in the ML reconstruction of fan-beam transmission with truncated projection data

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 426-438

  Pan, Tin Su ^a,b   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^b   Byrne, Charles L ^b  

^a GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fan beam; Image reconstruction; Initial condition; SPECT; Transmission imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICS; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MATHEMATICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS;

FAN BEAM TRANSMISSION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0031195392     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.611352     Document Type: Article

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