Regularization for uniform spatial resolution properties in penalized-likelihood image reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 601-615

  Webster Stayman, J ^a   Fessler, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a University of Michigan   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

SPATIAL RESOLUTION PROPERTIES;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; STANDARD; THEORETICAL MODEL; THORAX;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0034195227     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.870666     Document Type: Article

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