Fourier rebinning of time-of-flight PET data

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2749-2763

  Defrise, Michel ^a   Casey, Michael E ^b   Michel, Christian ^b   Conti, Maurizio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b CPS Innovations   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FOURIER OPTICS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

AXIAL APERTURES; SINOGRAM; TIME OF FLIGHT;

POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 20044393299     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/12/002     Document Type: Article

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