Two-dimensional iterative region-of-interest (ROI) reconstruction from truncated projection data

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 935-944

  Zhang, B ^a   Zeng, G L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Iterative reconstruction; SPECT; Truncation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

ANALYTICAL ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; MOORE-PENROSE INVERSE; ROI RECONSTRUCTION; SPECT; TRUNCATED PROJECTIONS; TRUNCATION;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGION OF INTEREST;

EID: 33847660834     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2436969     Document Type: Article

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