Accurate estimation of the Fisher information matrix for the PET image reconstruction problem

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1057-1064

  Li, Quanzheng ^a   Asma, Evren ^a   Qi, Jinyi ^b   Bading, James R ^a   Leahy, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fisher information matrix; Image reconstruction; PET; Uniform resolution

Indexed keywords

FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; LOCAL IMPULSE RESPONSE (LIR); SPATIAL RESOLUTION; UNIFORM RESOLUTION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 4444326487     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.833202     Document Type: Article

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