Improving the spatial resolution and image noise in densely pixilated detectors for positron emission mammography

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 676-683

  Hinse, Martin J ^a   Thompson, Christopher J ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Positron emission mammography (PEM); Sampling artifacts; Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; METABOLISM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TUMORS;

IMAGE CONTRAST; POSITRON EMISSION MAMMOGRAPHY (PEM); SAMPLING ARTIFACTS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844488464     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.851476     Document Type: Article

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