Activity and attenuation recovery from activity data only in emission computed tomography

Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 25, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 205-227

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Attenuated Radon Transform; Emission tomography; Maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTICLE BEAMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADON; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ATTENUATED RADON TRANSFORMS; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; DISCRETE MATHEMATICAL MODELS; EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMISSION DATA; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; MA XIMUM LIKELIHOODS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; NEW APPROACHES; NONUNIQUENESS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

EID: 34147140552     PISSN: 22383603     EISSN: 18070302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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