Noise characteristics of SPECT iterative reconstruction with a mis-matched projector-backprojector pair

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 4 PART 2, 1998, Pages 2183-2188

  Glick, Stephen J ^a   Scares, Edward J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GAMMA RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS;

EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION (EM) METHOD; MISMATCHED PROJECTOR-BACKPROJECTOR PAIR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032140860     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.708339     Document Type: Article

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