An improved analytical detector response function model multilayer small-diameter PET scanners

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 979-994

  Strul, D ^a,d   Slates, R B ^b   Dahlbom, M ^b   Cherry, S R ^c   Marsden, Paul K ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SCANNING;

SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0038029539     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/8/302     Document Type: Article

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