Septa design study for volumetric imaging in positron emission tomography

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2097-2102

  Aykac, Mehmet ^a   Uribe, Jorge ^a   Baghaei, Hossain ^a   Li, Hongdi ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Liu, Yaqiang ^a   Xing, Tao ^a   Wong, Wai Hoi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Deadtime model; Monte Carlo simulation; Noise equivalent curve; Positron emission tomography (PET); Scatter fraction; Septa

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTOELECTRICITY; PHOTONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TUMORS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

AXIAL FIELD OF VIEW; COUNT RATE; NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNT; VOLUMETRIC IMAGING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036816445     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.803812     Document Type: Article

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