Intercomparison of four reconstruction techniques for positron volume imaging with rotating planar detectors

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 823-834

  Reader, A J ^a   Visvikis, D ^a,b   Erlandsson, K ^a   Ott, R J ^a   Flower, M A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GAMMA CAMERAS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0031961296     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/4/011     Document Type: Article

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