High Sensitivity, Total Body PET Scanning Using 3D Data Acquisition and Reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 1088-1092

  Cherry, Simon R ^a   Dahlbom, Magnus ^a   Hoffman, Edward J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

TOTAL BODY SCANNING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0026900597     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.159765     Document Type: Article

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