The inverse problem of emission tomography

Inverse Problems

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1435-1460

  Gourion, Daniel ^a   Noll, Dominikus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; RADON;

EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (ECT);

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

EID: 0036796440     PISSN: 02665611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0266-5611/18/5/315     Document Type: Article

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