Normalization for 3D PET with a low-scatter planar source and measured geometric factors

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 961-972

  Oakes, T R ^a   Sossi, V ^a   Ruth, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0031971784     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/4/023     Document Type: Article

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