Estimation of the noise contributions from blank, transmission and emission scans in pet

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 4 PART 1, 1996, Pages 2285-2291

  Holm, Søren ^a   Toft, Peter ^a   Jensen, Mikael ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CALCULATIONS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STRUCTURES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BLANK SCAN; BRAIN PHANTOM; CONTOUR PLOT; EMISSION SCAN; NOISE CONTRIBUTIONS; NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNTS; TRANSMISSION SCAN;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030214070     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.531893     Document Type: Article

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