Fast transmission CT reconstruction for SPECT using a block-iterative algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3 PART 3, 2000, Pages 1123-1129

  Lalush, David S ^a   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS;

BLOCK ITERATIVE METHOD; BLOCK ITERATIVE TRANSMISSION ALGORITHM; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION; ORDERED SUBSET CONVEX ALGORITHM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034205972     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.856558     Document Type: Article

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