LROC model observers for emission tomographic reconstruction

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 509-520

  Khurd, Parmeshwar ^a   Gindi, Gene ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

LROC; MAP reconstruction; Model observers; PET; SPECT

Indexed keywords

LROC; MAP RECONSTRUCTION; MODEL OBSERVERS; SPECT;

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 12144252890     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.536442     Document Type: Conference Paper

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