SS3D - Fast fully 3-D PET iterative reconstruction using stochastic sampling

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49, Issue 1 I, 2002, Pages 124-130

  Kudrolli, H ^b,c   Worstell, W ^a,c   Zavarzin, V ^c  

^a IEEE

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c PhotoDetection Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Iterative reconstruction; Monte Carlo; Stochastic techniques

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

COMPUTATIONAL TIME; IMAGE SPACE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; SYSTEM RESPONSE MATRIX;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036464472     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.998738     Document Type: Article

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