Effect of Real-Time Weighted Integration System for Rapid Calculation of Functional Images in Clinical Positron Emission Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 116-121

  Iida, Hidehiro ^a   Tanaka, Kazumi ^b   Hirose, Yoshiharu ^b   Yamamoto, Seiichi ^b   Murakami, Matsutaro ^a   Uemura, Kazuo ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN AND BLOOD VESSELS AKITA   (Japan)

^b SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTEGRATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FUNCTIONAL IMAGES; PARAMETRIC RATE CONSTANTS; SINOGRAMS; WEIGHTED INTEGRATION SYSTEM;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 0029269576     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.370407     Document Type: Article

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