PET-SORTEO: Validation and development of database of simulated PET volumes

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 5 I, 2005, Pages 1321-1328

  Reilhac, Anthonin ^a   Batan, Gaël ^a   Michel, Christian ^b   Grova, Christophe ^c   Tohka, Jussi ^d,e   Louis Collins, D ^a   Costes, Nicolas ^f   Evans, Alan C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CTI PET Systems Inc   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Centre d'Etude et de Recherche Multimodal et Pluridisciplinaire Imagerie du Vivant   (France)

Author keywords

Image processing; Monte Carlo simulation; Positron emission tomography; Validation data

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ANATOMICAL SCALIBILITY; PET DATA; VALIDATION DATA;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 29144533330     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.858242     Document Type: Article

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