Image blurring due to light-sharing in PET block detectors

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 405-410

  St James, Sara ^a   Thompson, Christopher J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING; SCINTILLATION;

ANNIHILATION PHOTONS; DEPTH OF INTERACTIONS; INTERACTION DEPTH; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE; PHOTON INTERACTIONS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYSTAL; GAMMA RADIATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; SCINTILLATION;

EID: 31844436097     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2161406     Document Type: Article

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