Image reconstruction

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 13, 2006, Pages

  Defrise, Michel ^a   Gullberg, Grant T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2D TOMOGRAPHY; MOVING ORGANS; RECONSTRUCTION PROBLEMS; SPECT;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IONIZING RADIATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

RADIOISOTOPE; TEBOROXIME TC 99M;

ALGORITHM; BAYES THEOREM; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IONIZING RADIATION; PHYSICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOVEMENT;

EID: 33745486018     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/13/R09     Document Type: Review

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