Power laws for image quality measures in PET penalized-likelihood image reconstruction

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ahn, Sangtae ^a   Asma, Evren ^a   Ross, Steven G ^b   Manjeshwar, Ravindra M ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PARAMETERIZATION; SCANNING; VECTOR SPACES;

CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; IMAGE QUALITY MEASURE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION METHODS; PENALIZED-LIKELIHOOD IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RECONSTRUCTION PARAMETERS; REGULARIZATION PARAMETERS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 84904170494     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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