I Fast reconstruction of 3D PET data with accurate statistical modeling

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3 PART 2, 1998, Pages 1083-1089

  Comtat, C ^a   Kinahan, P E ^b   Defrise M ^b   Michel, C ^b   Townsend, D W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FOURIER REBINNING ALGORITHMS; PENALIZED WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES METHOD; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032097529     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.681983     Document Type: Article

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