An interior point iterative maximum-likelihood reconstruction algorithm incorporating upper and lower bounds with application to SPECT transmission imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 342-353

  Narayanan, Manoj V ^a,b   Byrne, Charles L ^a,c   King, Michael A ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Iterative methods; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THORAX;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0035297606     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.921483     Document Type: Article

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