An exact Fourier rebinning algorithm for 3D PET imaging using panel detectors

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2407-2423

  Kao, Chien Min ^a   Pan, Xiaochuan ^a   Chen, Chin Tu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; FOURIER-BASED ALGORITHMS; NOISE DISTRIBUTIONS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VARIANCE;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 3042781792     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/11/020     Document Type: Article

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