Evaluation of a fully 3-D BPF method for small animal pet images on mimd architectures

International Journal of Modern Physics C

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 723-739

  Bevilacqua, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

3 D Image Reconstruction; Backprojection; BPF; Cluster of Workstations; Distributed Computing; MIMD; Parallel Computing; PET

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346454410     PISSN: 01291831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129183199000541     Document Type: Article

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