Rebinning and reconstruction of point source transmission data for positron emission tomography

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 2839-2843

  Daube Witherspoon, Margaret E ^a   Popescu, Lucretiu M ^b   Matej, Samuel ^b   Cardi, Christopher A ^a   Lewitt, Robert M ^b   Karp, Joel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROJECTION; CORRECTION FACTORS; LINES OF RESPONSE (LOS); ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION (OSEM);

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DETECTORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTIMIZATION; SCANNING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 11844296719     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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