Simultaneous activity attenuation reconstruction in Positron Emission Tomography via Maximum Likelihood and iterative methods

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 624-627

  De Pierro, Alvaro R ^a   Crepaldi, Fabiana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CROSSTALK; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD (ML) PROBLEMS; PENALIZED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PHOTON ATTENUATION; TOMOGRAPHY RECONSTRUCTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 33749256467     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2005.1530469     Document Type: Conference Paper

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