Effects of energy space smoothing and projection space normalization on multispectral PET image quality

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 3 PART 2, 1996, Pages 1988-1994

  Yao, R ^a   Msaki, P ^a   Bentourkia, M ^a   Lecomte, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ENERGY DEPENDENT DATA PROCESSING; ENERGY FRAMES; ENERGY SPACE SMOOTHING; LINE SOURCE IMAGES; LINES OF RESPONSE; MULTIPLE ENERGY WINDOWS; MULTISPECTRAL POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROJECTION SPACE NORMALIZATION; SCATTER CORRECTION; SYSTEM SENSITIVITY;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030168858     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.507258     Document Type: Article

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