Resolution recovery in PET during AWOSEM reconstruction: A performance evaluation study

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1626-1638

  De Bernardi, Elisabetta ^a   Mazzoli, Marco ^b   Zito, Felicia ^b   Baselli, Giuseppe ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Image reconstructiom; Ordered subset expectation maximization (OSEM); Positron emission tomography (PET); Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ORDERED SUBSET EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION (OSEM); RESOLUTION RECOVERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYSTEM MATRIX;

IMAGE RESOLUTION;

EID: 35348964230     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2007.905167     Document Type: Article

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