Effect of lower energy threshold on single and multiple scatter distributions in positron volume imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 46, Issue 4 PART 2, 1999, Pages 1129-1135

  Lewellen, T K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN CONVOLUTION; POSITRON VOLUME IMAGING (PVI); SOFTWARE PACKAGE SIMSET;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONVOLUTION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033348079     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.790846     Document Type: Article

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