SNR-weighted ART applied to transmission tomography

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 2739-2742

  Köhler, Thomas ^a   Proksa, Roland ^a   Nielsen, Tim ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

ART; Statistical reconstruction; Transmission tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATTENUATION; DETECTORS; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICS;

ALGEBRAIC RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE (ART); DISCRETIZATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); STATISTICAL RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 11844280331     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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