Effect of Detector Weighting Functions on the Point Spread Function of High-Resolution PET Tomographs: A Simulation Study

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 379-385

  Karuta, Bonaventure ^a   Lecomte, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

DETECTION PROBABILITY; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHM; POINT SPREAD FUNCTION; RING PET TOMOGRAPH;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0026922961     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.158942     Document Type: Article

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