Attenuation correction in PET using consistency information

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 6 PART 2, 1998, Pages 3134-3141

  Welch, A ^a,b   Campbell, C ^a,b   Clackdoyle, R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ERROR CORRECTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CONSISTENCY CONDITIONS; ELLIPTICAL ATTENUATION DISTRIBUTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032307814     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.737676     Document Type: Article

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