Fully Three-Dimensional Reconstruction for a PET Camera with Retractable Septa

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 505-512

  Townsend, David W ^a   Geissbuhler, Antoine ^b   Defrise, Michel ^c   Hoffman, Edward J ^d   Spinks, Terry J ^a   Bailey, Dale L ^a   Jones, Terry ^a   Gilardi, Maria Carla ^e  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS - THREE DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICS; IMAGE PROCESSING - RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS - FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION; PET CAMERA; SCATTER CORRECTION; SEPTA RETRACTION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0026385161     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.108584     Document Type: Article

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