Brain Lesion Detectability Studies with a High Resolution PET Operating in No-Septa and Partial-Septa Configurations

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 1364-1369

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D PET data acquisition; Lesion detectability; Positron emission tomography (PET); Septa

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DATA REDUCTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

SINOGRAMS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142095006     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.817967     Document Type: Article

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