Comparison of noise equivalent count rates and image noise

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 5 I, 2005, Pages 1386-1390

  Dahlbom, Magnus ^a,b   Schiepers, Christiaan ^b   Czernin, Johannes ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data processing; Image analysis; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

IMAGE NOISE; IMAGE SETS; NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNT (NEC); VARIANCE REDUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 29144468975     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.858176     Document Type: Article

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