Three-dimensional image reconstruction for a positron camera with limited angular acceptance

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1980, Pages 463-470

  Townsend, D ^a   Schorr, B ^b   Jeavons, A ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0018436016     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.1980.4330869     Document Type: Article

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