Correction for emission contamination in transmission scans for the high resolution research tomograph

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3 II, 2004, Pages 673-676

  De Jong, Hugo W A M ^a   Boellaard, Ronald ^a   Lenox, Mark ^b   Michel, Christiaan ^b   Lammertsma, Adriaan A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CTI PET Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

High Resolution Research Tomograph (HRRT); PET; Reconstruction; Transmission

Indexed keywords

EMISSION CONTAMINATION (EC); HIGH RESOLUTION RESEARCH TOMOGRAPH (HRRT); HISTOGRAM-BASED SCALING; TRANSMISSION RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; DISCRIMINATORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PHOTONS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 3342921912     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.829592     Document Type: Article

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