An Investigation of Methods of Pileup Rejection for 2-D Array Detectors Employed in High Resolution PET

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 223-227

  Germano, G ^a   Hoffman, E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

HIGH-RESOLUTION POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PILEUP REJECTION METHODS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAY DETECTORS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0026173358     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.79481     Document Type: Article

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