Use of a fast EM algorithm for 3D image reconstruction with the YAP-PET tomograph

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 293-302

  Motta, Alfonso ^b   Damiani, Chiara ^a,b   Del Guerra, Alberto ^b   Di Domenico, Giovanni ^a   Zavattini, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Estimation maximization; Iterative reconstruction; PET; YAP:Ce

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY;

FILTERED BACKPROJECTION (FBP);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DATA ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0042630441     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(02)00034-4     Document Type: Article

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