A fast image reconstruction algorithm based on penalized-likelihood estimate

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 679-686

  Sheng, Jinhua ^a   Ying, Lei ^b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

Author keywords

Expectation maximization; Image reconstruction; Iteration algorithms; Maximum likelihood; Ordered subset; Penalized function

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; ITERATION ALGORITHMS; ORDERED SUBSETS; PENALIZED FUNCTIONS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MODEL; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 27644530908     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2005.02.004     Document Type: Article

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