A bayesian approach to PET reconstruction using image-modeling gibbs priors: Implementation and comparison

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 44, Issue 3 PART 2, 1997, Pages 1347-1354

  Chan, Michael T ^a,b,d   Herman, Gabor T ^c,e   Levitan, Emanuel ^b,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^e ROCKWELL SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0042541011     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.597012     Document Type: Article

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