An EM algorithm for estimating SPECT emission and transmission parameters from emission data only

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 218-232

  Krol, Andrzej ^a   Bowsher, James E ^b   Manglos, Stephen H ^a   Feiglin, David H ^a   Tornai, Martin P ^b   Deaver Thomas, F ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation maps; EM; Multiple sources; SPECT

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTONS;

PHOTON EMISSION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0035263306     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.918472     Document Type: Article

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