Comparison of Unconventional Inter-filtering Methods to Penalised-likelihood for Space-invariant Tomographs

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 1691-1695

  Mustafovic, S ^a   Thielemans, K ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Iterative reconstruction; LLIR; Noise; Resolution; Spatially adaptive filter

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0142147992     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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