Diffusion regularization for iterative reconstruction in emission tomography

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3 II, 2004, Pages 712-718

  Riddell, Cyril ^a,b,c   Benali, Habib ^a   Buvat, Irène ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b GE SMVI   (France)

^c GE Medical Systems   (France)

Author keywords

Diffusion equations; Least squares methods; OSEM; Regularization; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; DIFFUSION; DIGITAL FILTERS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION REGULARIZATION; LEAST SQUARE METHODS; OSEM;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 3342932487     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.829782     Document Type: Article

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