An approach to positron emission tomography based on penalized cross-entropy minimization

Signal Processing

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1069-1074

  Zhang, Song ^a   Wang, Yuan Mei ^b  

^a HANGZHOU DIANZI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cross entropy; EM algorithm; Merit function; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS;

CROSS-ENTROPY; MERIT FUNCTIONS; SHEPP-LOGAN PHANTOMS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0343867214     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1684(00)00245-0     Document Type: Article

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