A method for determination of the timing stability of PET scanners

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1053-1057

  Thompson, Christopher J ^a   Goertzen, Andrew L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Positron emission tomography; Time of flight; Timing alignment; Timing stability

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; GAMMA RAYS; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

PET SCANNERS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT; TIMING ALIGNMENT; TIMING STABILITY;

POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 23844515766     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.852072     Document Type: Article

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