Pet system calibrations and corrections for quantitative and spatially accurate images

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 1108-1112

  Hoffman, Edward J ^a   Guerrero, Thomas M ^a   Germano, Guido ^a   Digby, Ward M ^a   Dahlbom, Magnus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIATION DETECTORS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

POSITIONING ERRORS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0024610834     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.34613     Document Type: Article

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