Unified Deadtime Correction Model for PET

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 267-275

  Daube Witherspoon, Margaret E ^a   Carson, Richard E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL COUNTERS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - CURVE FITTING; MEASUREMENT ERRORS;

EMISSION DEADTIME PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PET DEADTIME CORRECTION MODEL; TRANSMISSION COUNT RATE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0026218927     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.97575     Document Type: Article

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