Implementation of true continuous bed motion in 2-D and 3-D whole-body PET scanning

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 48, Issue 4 II, 2001, Pages 1465-1469

  Dahlbom, Magnus ^a,b   Reed, Johnny ^c   Young, John ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CTI PET Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Data acquisition; Data handling; Positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS CONTROLLER BOARD; LIST MODE DATA; TRUE CONTINUOUS AXIAL BED MOTION; WHOLE BODY SCANNING;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA HANDLING; FIRMWARE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING;

MOTION COMPENSATION;

EID: 0035428631     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.958381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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