Count-rate dependent event mispositioning and NEC in PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 41-45

  Badawi, R D ^a   Domigan, P ^b   Johnson, O ^b   Kemp, B ^c   Kudrolli, H ^b   Rempel, T ^d   Rohatgi, R ^b   Romanov, L V ^b   Surti, S ^e   Worstell, W A ^b   Zimmerman, R E ^f  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b PhotoDetection Systems   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Count rate; Data quality; NEC; PET; Pileup

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERPOLATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCINTILLATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

COUNT-RATE; DAT QUALITY; NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNT (NEC); PILEUP; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET);

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 2342621450     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.823045     Document Type: Article

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