The influence of noise in full Monte Carlo ML-EM and dual matrix reconstructions in positron emission tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3498-3507

  Rehfeld, Niklas ^a   Alber, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; Noise; Positron emission tomography; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MACHINE LEARNING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRONS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; DETECTOR MODELING; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; NOISE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS; SYSTEM MATRICES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOISE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

EID: 33748321969     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2239165     Document Type: Article

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