Investigation of the performance of the general electric advance positron emission tomograph in 3d mode

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 4 PART 1, 1996, Pages 2199-2206

  Lewellen, T K ^a   Kohlmyer, S G ^a   Miyaoka, R S ^a   Kaplan, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL RESOLUTION; COLSHER FILTER; DEAD TIME CORRECTION; LINE SPREAD FUNCTION; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; LINES OF RESPONSE; PHANTOMS; TRANSAXIAL RESOLUTION;

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INSTRUMENT TESTING; INTERPOLATION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PERFORMANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030216794     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.531882     Document Type: Article

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