MLE reconstruction of a brain phantom using a Monte Carlo transition matrix and a statistical stopping rule

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 603-607

  Hoffman, Edward J ^b   Llacer, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE PROCESSING - RECONSTRUCTION;

BRAIN PHANTOM; COMPUTER-SIMULATED PHANTOMS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD-ESTIMATOR ALGORITHM; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET);

NUCLEAR MEDICINE;

EID: 84939061977     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.12795     Document Type: Article

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