Mesh model based projection operator for emission tomography

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 2760-2763

  Delgado, Ricard Gonzalo ^b   Brankov, Jovan G ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; REPAIR; RESEARCH; RESTORATION; SULFATE MINERALS; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); TOMOGRAPHY;

ACQUISITION PROCESSES; COLLIMATOR RESPONSE; CONTENT-ADAPTIVE MESH MODEL; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE DEGRADATIONS; IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS; IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; MESH MODELING; NON-UNIFORM SAMPLING; NUCLEAR SCIENCES; PARALLEL HOLE; PROJECTION OPERATORS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTIONS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 48149106777     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436713     Document Type: Conference Paper

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