Accelerated penalized weighted least-squares and maximum likelihood algorithms for reconstructing transmission images from PET transmission data

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 337-351

  Anderson, J M M ^a,b   Srinivasan, R ^a,c   Mair, B A ^d   Votaw, J R ^e  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b School of Engineering   (United States)

^c Stryker Orthopaedics   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Iterative image reconstruction; Penalized maximum likelihood; PET attenuation

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS;

ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PENALIZED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PET ATTENUATION; PENALIZED MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET) ATTENUATION; WEIGHTED LEAST-SQUARE (WLS);

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THORAX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX;

EID: 14744282291     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.842453     Document Type: Article

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