An Expectation Maximization Method for Joint Estimation of Emission Activity Distribution and Photon Attenuation Map in PET

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 214-224

  Mihlin, Alexander ^a   Levin, Craig S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PHOTONS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

ACQUISITION MODELS; ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION METHOD; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CARDIAC MUSCLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUNG; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NOISE; PHOTON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING PHANTOM;

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

EID: 85013194774     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2016.2602339     Document Type: Article

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