Algorithms for joint estimation of attenuation and emission images in PET

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 6, Issue , 2000, Pages 3783-3786

  Erdoǧan, Hakan ^a   Fessler, Jeffrey A ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS; POSITRONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION FACTORS; EMISSION CONTAMINATIONS; HIGH ENERGY PHOTONS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PENALIZED LIKELIHOOD; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); POST-INJECTION TRANSMISSION SCAN; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION FACTOR COMPUTATION; EMISSION IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; JOINT ESTIMATION; PENALIZED LIKELIHOOD OBJECTIVE FUNCTION;

EID: 0033709670     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2000.860226     Document Type: Conference Paper

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