The thresholding MLEM algorithm

Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 85-91

  Chuang, Keh Shih ^a   Jan, Meei Ling ^a,b   Wu, Jay ^a   Chen, Sharon ^a   Ni, Yu Ching ^a   Fu, Ying Kai ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Iterative reconstruction; MLEM; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 3543111966     PISSN: 16090985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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