A Study of Bias for Various Iterative Reconstruction Methods in PET

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 1519-1523

  Hogg, D ^a,b   Thielemans, K ^c   Mustafovic, S ^c   Spinks, T J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Imaging Research Solutions Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

RANDOM ESTIMATIONS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0142210120     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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