Iterative reconstruction techniques in emission computed tomography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Qi, Jinyi ^a   Leahy, Richard M ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMISSION IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; HIGH-ENERGY PHOTON; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHOTON; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 33746529204     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/15/R01     Document Type: Review

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