A spline-regularized minimal residual algorithm for iterative attenuation correction in SPECT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2623-2642

  Pelegrini M ^a   Buvat, I ^a   Benali, H ^a   El Fakhri, G ^a,c   Grangeat, P ^b   Di Paola, R ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CEA LETI   (France)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0142063336     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/10/317     Document Type: Article

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