Simulated one-pass list-mode: An approach to on-the-fly system matrix calculation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2377-2394

  Gillam, J E ^a   Solevi, P ^a   Oliver, J F ^a   Rafecas, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; CONTINUOUS DETECTIONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84875326420     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/7/2377     Document Type: Article

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