A monte carlo correction for the effect of compton scattering in 3-D pet brain imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1181-1185

  Levin, C S ^a   Dahlbom, M ^a   Hoffman, E J ^b  

^a UCLA School of Medicine Division of Nuclear Medicine and Biophysics ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ISOTOPES; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PHOTONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPTON SCATTERING; DATA SET; DETECTOR GANTRY; IMAGE VOLUME; PIXEL; SINOGRAMS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029357143     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.467880     Document Type: Article

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