Effect of noise in the probability matrix used for statistical reconstruction of PET data

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 149-156

  Rafecas, Magdalena ^a   Böning, Guido ^a,b   Pichler, Bernd J ^a,c   Lorenz, Eckhart ^d   Schwaiger, Markus ^a   Ziegler, Sibylle I ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Iterative reconstruction; Monte Carlo simulations; Small animal PET; System probability matrix

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SMALL ANIMAL PET; SYSTEM PROBABILITY MATRICES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 2342638952     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.822998     Document Type: Article

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