Generalization of median root prior reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1413-1420

  Alenius, Sakari ^a   Ruotsalainen, Ulla ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

A priori penalty terms; Iterative reconstruction; Median root prior; Order statistics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY;

MEDIAN ROOT PRIOR (MRP);

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICS; THIGH; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; THIGH;

EID: 0036880515     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2002.806415     Document Type: Article

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