Iterative reconstruction of SPECT data with adaptive regularization

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2350-2354

  Riddell, Cyril ^a   Buvat, Irène ^a   Savi, Annarita ^b   Gilardi, Maria Carla ^b   Fazio, Ferruccio ^b  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Biomedical image processing; Image reconstruction; Inverse problems; Regularization; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; VECTORS;

ADAPTIVE PROCESS YIELDS; ADAPTIVE REGULARIZATION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE VARIATIONS; SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036816797     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.803677     Document Type: Article

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