Transmission-less attenuation correction in time-of-flight PET: Analysis of a discrete iterative algorithm

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1073-1095

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

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

attenuation correction; image reconstruction; positron tomography

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ATTENUATION CORRECTION FACTORS; ATTENUATION FACTORS; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATE; NUMBER OF ITERATIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT PET;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84893818664     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/4/1073     Document Type: Article

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