Statistical Methods for Image Reconstruction

0.0 c © J. Fessler, October 24, 2004 p0intro These annotated slides were prepared by Jeff Fessler for attendees of the NSS-MIC short course on statistical image reconstruction methods. The purpose of the annotation is to provide supplemental details, and particularly to provide extensive literature references for further study. For a fascinating history of tomography, see [1]. For broad coverage of image science, see [2]. For further references on image reconstruction, see review papers and chapters, e.g., [3–9].

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