Modeling and simulation of positron range effects for high resolution PET imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 5 I, 2005, Pages 1391-1395

  Palmer, Matthew R ^a,b   Zhu, Xuping ^b   Parker, J Anthony ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Image resolution; Monte Carlo methods; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

BLURRING EFFECTS; DIFFUSION APPROXIMATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LINE-SPREAD FUNCTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 29144503212     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.858264     Document Type: Article

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