Iterative image reconstruction for clinical PET using ordered subsets, median root prior, and a web-based interface

Molecular Imaging and Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 219-231

  Kontaxakis, George ^a   Strauss, Ludwig G ^b   Thireou, Trias ^c   Ledesma Carbayo, Maria J ^a   Santos, Andrés ^a   Pavlopoulos, Sotiris A ^c   Dimitrakopoulou Strauss, Antonia ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction factors; Distributed pentium systems; Iterative image reconstruction; Maximum likelihood expectation maximization; Median root prior; Ordered subsets; Web based interface

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; CALCULATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERNET; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; TIME; VALIDATION PROCESS;

SALVIA;

EID: 0036302737     PISSN: 15361632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1536-1632(02)00004-5     Document Type: Article

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