Image quality assessment of pixellated systems

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 7, Issue , 2004, Pages 4058-4062

  Goedicke, Andreas ^a   Wieczorek, Herfried ^a   Botterweck, Henrik ^a   Eckenbach, Wolfgang ^a   Shao, Ling ^b   Petrillo, Micheal ^b   Ye, Jinghan ^b   Vesel, John ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DETECTORS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SOLID STATE DEVICES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DETECTOR DESIGN; ENERGY RESOLUTION; LOW-ENERGY PARTICLES; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 23844545136     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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