Statistical modeling and reconstruction of randoms precorrected PET data

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1565-1572

  Li, Quanzheng ^a   Leahy, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood image reconstruction; Positron emission tomography (PET); Randoms precorrected PET data

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

MAXIMUM- IKELIHOOD IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POISSON MODEL; PROBABILITY MASS FUNCTION (PMF); RANDOMS PRECORRECTED PET DATA;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33845569301     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.884193     Document Type: Article

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