Monotonic algorithms for transmission tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 801-814

  Erdogan, Hakan ^a   Fessler, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033181297     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.802758     Document Type: Article

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