An evaluation of exact and approximate 3-D reconstruction algorithms for a high- resolution, small-animal PET scanner

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1073-1080

  Farquhar, T H ^a   Chatziioannou, A ^a   Cherry, S R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction; Positron emission tomography (PET); Small animal pet scanner; Three dimensional (3 D) reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

FOURIER REBINNING (FORE); SINGLE SLICE REBINNING (SSRB); VARIABLE AXIAL REBINNING (VARB);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; CEBIDAE; CERCOPITHECUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; RAT; STATISTICS; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MICE; RATS; SAIMIRI; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0032216620     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.746722     Document Type: Article

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