Application of discrete data consistency conditions for selecting regularization parameters in PET attenuation map reconstruction

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2425-2436

  Panin, Vladimir Y ^a   Kehren, Frank ^a   Hamill, James J ^a   Michel, Christian ^a  

^a CPS Innovations   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; REGULARIZATION PARAMETERS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; STATISTICS; WHOLE BODY TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 3042745611     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/11/021     Document Type: Article

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