Enhanced 3D PET OSEM reconstruction using inter-update metz filtering

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2417-2439

  Jacobson, M ^a   Levkovitz, R ^a   Ben Tal, A ^a   Thielemans, K ^b   Spinks, T ^b   Belluzzo, D ^c   Pagani, E ^c   Bettinardi, V ^c   Gilardi, M C ^c   Zverovich, A ^d   Mitra, G ^d  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c HSR TIGET   (Italy)

^d BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

INTER UPDATE METZ FILTERING; ORDERED SET EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION (OSEM) ALGORITHM;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FILTRATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0033867061     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/8/325     Document Type: Article

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