A stationary sampling scheme for multilayer positron tomographs

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 293-298

  Heon M ^a   Carrier, C ^a   Cadorette, J ^a   Richard, P ^a   Rouleau, D ^a   Rodrigue, S ^a   Lecomte, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADIATION DETECTORS; SAMPLING;

COINCIDENCE APERTURE FUNCTION; DETECTOR LINES OF RESPONSE; DETECTOR SPACING; SAMPLING DISTANCE;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0027610172     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.232258     Document Type: Article

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