Penalized-likelihood estimators and noise analysis for randoms-precorrected PET transmission scans

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 665-674

  Yavuz, Mehmet ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY;

IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

COVARIANCE APPROXIMATION; PENALIZED MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0033169213     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.796280     Document Type: Article

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