Analysis of factors affecting positron emission mammography (PEM) image formation

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50 I, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-59

  Smith, Mark F ^a   Majewski, Start ^a   Weisenberger, Andrew G ^a   Kieper, Douglas A ^a   Raylman, Raymond R ^b   Turkington, Timothy G ^c  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Image reconstruction; Iterative reconstruction; Limited angle tomography; Mammotomography; MLEM; Positron emission mammography (PEM); Positron imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; X RAYS;

LINE OF RESPONSE (LOR);

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0037291606     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.807942     Document Type: Article

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