Investigation of Angular Smoothing of PET Data

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 44, Issue 6 PART 2, 1997, Pages 2494-2499

  Daube Witherspoon, M E ^a   Carson, R E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

ANGULAR IMAGE SMOOTHING; EMISSION SCANNING; RADIAL IMAGE SMOOTHING; TRANSMISSION SCANNING;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0031361911     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.656458     Document Type: Article

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