Fast image reconstruction for Compton camera using stochastic origin ensemble approach

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 429-438

  Andreyev, Andriy ^a   Sitek, Arkadiusz ^b   Celler, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Compton camera; emission tomography; image reconstruction; Metropolis algorithm; noise

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LOCATION; MARKOV CHAINS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MEDICAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COMPTON CAMERA; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FAST IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; METROPOLIS ALGORITHMS; NOISE; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 78650903901     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3528170     Document Type: Article

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