Free-form deformation in tomographic reconstruction. Application to attenuation map reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3 PART 3, 2000, Pages 1065-1071

  Battle, X L ^a   Le Rest, C ^a   Turzo, A ^a   Bizais, Y ^a  

^a Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ATTENUATION MAP RECONSTRUCTION; ATTENUATION PROPERTIES; COMPLEX ATTENUATION MAP TEMPLATE; FREE FORM DEFORMATION; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0034205816     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.856548     Document Type: Article

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