On estimating the variance of smoothed MLEM images

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 714-721

  Nuyts, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood; Reconstruction; Variance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURVE FITTING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; IMAGE SMOOTHING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHM; TRACER KINETIC MODELING; VARIANCE ESTIMATION; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARE FITTING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036624450     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.1039553     Document Type: Article

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