Comparison of the convergence properties of the It-W and OS-EM algorithms in SPECT1

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3 PART 2, 1998, Pages 1317-1323

  Wallis, J W ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EQUIVALENT NOISE LEVEL; KERNEL SIEVE REGULARIZATION; ORDERED SUBSET EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032097191     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.682023     Document Type: Article

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