Convergence study of an accelerated ML-EM algorithm using bigger step size

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 237-252

  Hwang, DoSik ^a,b   Zeng, Gengsheng L ^b  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PHYSICAL ASPECTS; VARIANCE NOISE;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 32544441568     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/2/004     Document Type: Article

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