3D image reconstruction for a Compton SPECT camera model

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 46, Issue 6 PART 3, 1999, Pages 2075-2084

  Sauve, Anne C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPTON CAMERA; FISHER VON-MISES MODEL; GAUSS-SEIDEL ALGORITHM; KLEIN-NISHINA DISTRIBUTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSITION MATRIX;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0033352159     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.819285     Document Type: Article

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