PET image reconstruction: A stopping rule for the MLEM algorithm based on properties of the updating coefficients

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 131-141

  Gaitanis, Anastasios ^b,f   Kontaxakis, George ^d,e   Spyrou, George ^b   Panayiotakis, George ^f   Tzanakos, George ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^d UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction; MLEM; Monte Carlo; PET; Stopping rule; Updating coefficient

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION; MINIMUM VALUE; MONTE CARLO; NOISE-FREE PROJECTION DATA; PET IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PET IMAGES; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SIMULATED DATA; STOPPING CRITERIA; STOPPING RULE;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PIXELS; REPAIR;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 75149177051     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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