Maximum-likelihood reconstruction with ordered subsets in bone SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1978-1984

  Blocklet, Didier ^a   Seret, Alain ^a   Popa, Niculaie ^a   Schoutens, André ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bone SPECT; Filtered backprojection; Iterative reconstruction; Maximum likelihood of expectation maximization; Ordered subset expectation maximum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BONE SCINTISCANNING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE;

ARTIFACTS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MEDRONATE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033386225     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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