Variability Assessment in Positron Emission Tomography and Related Generalized Deconvolution Models

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 93, Issue 444, 1998, Pages 1340-1355

  Maitra, Ranjan ^a   O'sullivan, Finbarr ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bias; Consistency; Filtered backprojection; Variability assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032264339     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1998.10473796     Document Type: Article

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