Study of multispectral frame-by-frame convolution scatter correction in high resolution pet

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 44, Issue 6 PART 2, 1997, Pages 2489-2493

  Yao, R ^a   Bentourkia, M ^b   Lecomte, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS;

BROAD WINDOW (BW) MODES; CONVOLUTION RESTORATION SCATTER CORRECTION METHODS; MULTISPECTRAL WINDOW (MW) MODES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031355708     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.656457     Document Type: Article

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