Mean and variance of single photon counting with deadtime

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2043-2056

  Yu, Daniel F ^a   Fessler, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHOTONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033915147     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/7/324     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Barrett H H and Swindell W 1981 Radiological Imaging: the Theory of Image Formation, Detection, and Processing (New York: Academic)
2. Bruckner A M, Bruckner J B and Thomson BS 1997 Real Analysis (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall)
3. Carloni F. Corberi A, Marseguerra M and Porceddu C M 1970 Asymptotic method of dead-time correction in Poissonian distribution Nucl. Instrum. Methods 78 70-6
4. Cox DR 1962 Renewal Theory (London: Methuen)
5. Daube-Witherspoon M E and Carson RE 1991 Unified deadtime correction model for PET IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 10 267-75
6. Engeland U, Striker T and Luig H 1998 Count-rate statistics of the gamma camera Phys. Med. Biol. 43 2939-47
7. Faraci G and Pennisi A R 1983 Experimental dead-time distortions of Poisson processes Nucl. Instrum. Methods 212 307-10
8. Feller W 1968 An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications (New York: Wiley)
9. Knoll G F 1989 Radiation Detection and Measurement 2nd edn (New York: Wiley)
10. Libert J 1978 Statistique de comptage avec distribution uniforme de temps mort Nucl. Instrum. Methods 151 555-61
11. Mazoyer B M, Roos M S and Huesman R H 1985 Dead time correction and counting statistics for positron tomography Phys. Med. Biol. 30 385-99
12. Müller J W 1973 Dead-time problems Nucl. Instrum. Methods 112 47-57
13. _1974 Some formulae for a dead-time-distorted Poisson process Nucl. Instrum. Methods 117 401-4
14. Sorenson J A and Phelps M E 1987 Physics in Nuclear Medicine 2nd edn (Philadelphia: Saunders)
15. Stearns C W, Chesler D A, Kirsch J E and Brownell G L 1985 Quantitative imaging with the MGH analog ring positron tomograph IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 32 898-901
16. Tai Y-C, Chatziioannou A, Dahlbom M and Hoffman E J 1998 Investigation on deadtime characteristics for simultaneous emission-transmission data acquisition in PET IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 45 2200-4
17. Yamamoto S, Amano M, Miura S, Iida H and Kan I 1986 Deadtime correction method using random coincidence for PET J. Nucl. Med. 27 1925-8