Application of the row action maximum likelihood algorithm with spherical basis functions to clinical PET imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 48, Issue 1 I, 2001, Pages 24-30

  Daube Witherspoon, M E ^a   Matej, S ^a   Karp, J S ^a   Lewitt, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; FOURIER REBINNING; ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; SPHERICAL BASIS FUNCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035246621     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.910827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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