Optimal Nonlinear Line-of-Flight Estimation in Positron Emission Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 421-426

  Bronstein, Alexander M ^a   Bronstein, Michael M ^a   Zibulevsky, Michael ^a   Zeevi, Yehoshua Y ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; emission tomography; gamma camera; scintillation detector

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

ANGER ALGORITHM; OPTIMAL NONLINEAR LINE-OF-FLIGHT ESTIMATION; PARALLAX EFFECT;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0038382156     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.812434     Document Type: Article

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