Reconstruction of attenuation map using discrete consistency conditions

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 451-462

  Bronnikov, Andrei V ^a  

^a KEMA   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THORAX; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; THORAX; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034178298     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.870255     Document Type: Article

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