Comparison of three applications of ConTraSPECT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 46, Issue 6 PART 3, 1999, Pages 2146-2153

  Laurette, I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

EMISSION IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; UNIFORM ELLIPSE; UNIFORM SPLINE CURVE;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033331377     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.819297     Document Type: Article

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