Activity and attenuation reconstruction for positron emission tomography using emission data only via maximum likelihood and iterative data refinement

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 100-106

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

^a IEEE   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood estimation; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION MAP; PENALIZED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSTALK; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33847765354     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.889168     Document Type: Article

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