Positron Emission Tomography with a Large Axial Acceptance Angle: Signal-To-Noise Considerations

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 249-255

  Karp, Joel S ^a   Kinahan, P E ^a   Mankoff, D A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS - SCATTERING; IMAGE PROCESSING - RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS; NOISE, SPURIOUS SIGNAL - SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; PHOTODETECTORS;

ACCEPTANCE ANGLE; CYLINDRICAL PHANTOM; ENERGY THRESHOLD; PET SCANNER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0026221858     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.97572     Document Type: Article

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