Noise propagation from attenuation correction into PET reconstructions

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49, Issue 1 I, 2002, Pages 90-97

  Hsiao, Ing Tsung ^a,b,c   Gindi, Gene ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Noise propagation; PET reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORECTION FACTOR; COVARIANCE; NOISE PROPAGATION;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ATTENUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036464415     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.998687     Document Type: Article

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