Exact emission SPECT reconstruction with truncated transmission data

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3329-3340

  Zeng, Gengsheng L ^a   Gullberg, Grant T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ATTENUATION MAPS; EM ALGORITHMS; EMISSION DATA; EMISSION PROJECTIONS; INTERIOR PROBLEM; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; SOFT TISSUE; SOFT-TISSUE REGIONS; SPECT/CT; TRANSMISSION DATA; TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PIXELS; REPAIR;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOFT TISSUE; TRUNK; ALGORITHM; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; THORAX;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 69249235575     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/11/004     Document Type: Article

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