EM Algorithm System Modeling by Image-Space Techniques for PET Reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 1392-1397

  Reader, Andrew J ^a   Julyan, Peter J ^b   Williams, Heather ^a   Hastings, David L ^b   Zweit, Jamal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Iterative image reconstruction; Positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

LIST-MODE DATA;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142126682     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.817327     Document Type: Article

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