Analytic 3D image reconstruction using all detected events

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 964-968

  Kinahan, P E ^a   Rogers, J G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b TRIUMF   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING--ALGORITHMS; GAMMA RAYS;

BACKPROJECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0024610693     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.34585     Document Type: Article

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