Impact of system design parameters on image figures of merit for a mouse PET scanner

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 27-33

  Lee, Kisung ^a   Kinahan, Paul E ^a   Miyaoka, Robert S ^a   Kim, Jae Seung ^a   Lewellen, Tom K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging; Image analysis; Positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION (PSF); POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET);

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 2342589405     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.824824     Document Type: Article

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