A three-dimensional theoretical model incorporating spatial detection uncertainty in continuous detector PET

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2337-2350

  Staelens, Steven ^a   D'Asseler, Yves ^a   Vandenberghe, Stefaan ^a   Koole, Michel ^a   Lemahieu, Ignace ^a   Van de Walle, Rik ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CRYSTAL THICKNESS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET);

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAMERA; CRYSTAL; DENSITY; ENERGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHOTON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THICKNESS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 3042780402     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/11/015     Document Type: Article

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