An evaluation of various analytic reconstruction algorithms and implementations for 2D and 3D PET

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 7, Issue , 2004, Pages 4043-4047

  Dinelle, Katherine ^a   Thielemans, Kris ^b   Tsoumpas, Charalampos ^c   Spinks, Terry J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Hammersmith Imanet   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERPOLATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING; THERMAL NOISE;

BACK PROJECTORS; RECONSTRUCTION METHODS; SINOGRAMS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 23844515021     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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