Effect of errors in the system matrix on maximum a posteriori image reconstruction

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 3297-3312

  Qi, Jinyi ^a,b   Huesman, Ronald H ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAPPING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STIMULATED EMISSION;

EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTERIORI IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); SYSTEM MATRIX; TAYLOR SERIES APPROXIMATIONS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 22244443384     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/14/007     Document Type: Article

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