A robust method of x-ray source spectrum estimation from transmission measurements: Demonstrated on computer simulated, scatter-free transmission data

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2005, Pages

  Sidky, Emil Y ^a   Yu, Lifeng ^a   Pan, Xiaochuan ^a   Zou, Yu ^a   Vannier, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; ITERATIVE METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; X RAYS;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXPECTATION-MINIMIZATION (EM); SCATTER-FREE TRANSMISSION; SPECTRUM ESTIMATION;

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 21644449154     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1928312     Document Type: Article

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