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

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1563-1572

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Joint activity and attenuation estimation; maximum likelihood; self normalization; time of flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ATTENUATION ESTIMATION; JOINT ESTIMATION PROBLEMS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SELF-NORMALIZATION; SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATION; TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE; PATIENT CODING; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; THORAX; TIME OF FLIGHT POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; SCINTISCANNING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX;

EID: 84903759381     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2014.2318175     Document Type: Article

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