Noise characterization of block-iterative reconstruction algorithms: I. Theory

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 261-270

  Soares, Edward J ^a,b,c   Byrne, Charles L ^a,b,c   Glick, Stephen J ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

RESCALED BLOCK ITERATIVE (RBI) RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; SIMULTANEOUS MULTIPLICATIVE ALGEBRAIC RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034164338     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.848178     Document Type: Article

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