The image quality of FBP and MLEM reconstruction

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3161-3176

  Wieczorek, Herfried ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; NOISE LEVELS; NOISE POWER; NOISE-POWER SPECTRA; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; PET IMAGES; PHYSICAL EFFECTS; QUALITY MEASURES; QUALITY THEORY; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION PARAMETERS; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); SIMULATED PHANTOM;

IMAGE QUALITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 77957743982     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/11/012     Document Type: Article

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