Statistical image reconstruction methods for randoms-precorrected PET scans

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 369-378

  Yavuz, Mehmet ^a   Fessler, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a University of Michigan   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood image reconstruction; Randoms precorrected PET; Statistical approximations; Statistical image reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCINTISCANNING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ABDOMEN; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0032241116     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-8415(98)80017-0     Document Type: Article

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