Interest of the ordered subsets expectation maximization (OS-EM) algorithm in pinhole single-photon emission tomography reconstruction: A phantom study

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 140-146

  Vanhove, Christian ^a   Defrise, Michel ^b   Franken, Philippe R ^a   Everaert, Hendrik ^a   Deconinck, Frank ^b   Bossuyt, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; OS; Pinhole; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COLLIMATOR; DIGITAL FILTERING; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0033975686     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002590050019     Document Type: Article

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