Detailed investigation of transmission and emission data smoothing protocols and their effects on emission images

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 1 PART 2, 1996, Pages 290-294

  Chatziioannou, A ^a,b   Dahlbom, M ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LOW PASS FILTERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; EMISSION AND TRANSMISSION DATA; IMAGE ARTIFACTS; RAMP FILTER; SINOGRAMS; SMOOTHING PROTOCOLS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030087019     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.485968     Document Type: Article

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