Maximum-likelihood transmission image reconstruction for overlapping transmission beams

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1094-1105

  Yu, Daniel F ^a   Fessler, Jeffrey A ^a   Ficaro, Edward P ^a   Yu, D F ^a   Ficaro, E P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PHOTONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ATTENUATION MAPS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD TRANSMISSION IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIPLE SOURCE; OVERLAPPING TRANSMISSION BEAMS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROBABILITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICS;

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

EID: 0034310515     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.896785     Document Type: Article

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