Comparison between post-smoothed maximum-likelihood and penalized-likelihood for image reconstruction with uniform spatial resolution

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 895-899

  Nuyts, Johan ^a   Fessler, Jeffrey A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

UNIFORM SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0142148105     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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