LOR-OSEM: Statistical PET reconstruction from raw line-of-response histograms

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 4731-4744

  Kadrmas, Dan J ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; LINE-OF-RESPONSE (LOR) HISTOGRAMS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PHANTOM; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; RANDOMIZATION; ROTATION; SIMULATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 7244251647     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/20/005     Document Type: Article

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