A new simple iterative reconstruction algorithm for SPECT transmission measurement

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2312-2319

  Hwang, DoSik ^a   Zeng, Gengsheng L ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSIONS;

EM ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; NON-NEGATIVE SOLUTIONS; PHANTOM DATA; SIMULATION STUDIES; TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS; TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOISE; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 22544485047     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1944288     Document Type: Article

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