ML-reconstruction for TOF-PET with simultaneous estimation of the attenuation factors

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2147-2149

  Nuyts, Johan ^a   Rezaei, Ahmadreza ^a   Defrise, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ATTENUATION CORRECTION FACTORS; ATTENUATION FACTORS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATION; TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84881569211     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2012.6551491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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4. M Conti. "Why is TOF PET reconstruction a more robust method in the presence of inconsistent data,", Phys Med Biol 2011, 56: 155-168.