Quantitative performance and optimal regularization parameter in block sequential regularized expectation maximization reconstructions in clinical 68Ga-PSMA PET/MR

Edwin E. G. W. ter Voert1,2, Urs J. Muehlematter1, Gaspar Delso3, Daniele Antonio Pizzuto1,4, Julian Müller1, Hannes W. Nagel1, Irene A. Burger1
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
2University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
3GE Healthcare, Waukesha, USA
4Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

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