Use of scanner characteristics in iterative image reconstruction for high-resolution positron emission tomography studies of small animals

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 779-786

  Brix, Gunnar ^a   Doll, Josef ^a   Bellemann, Matthias E ^a   Trojan, Herbert ^a   Haberkorn, Uwe ^a   Schmidlin, Peter ^a   Ostertag, Hermann ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal studies; Image restoration; Positron emission tomography; Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RAT; SCINTISCANNING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0030740610     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002590050120     Document Type: Article

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