Performance evaluation of the Philips "Gemini" PET/CT system

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 93-102

  Gregory, Rebecca ^a   Partridge, Mike ^a   Flower, Maggie A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT EMISSION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; STANDARDS;

EMISSION PHANTOM; ROW ACTION MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ALGORITHM (RAMLA);

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33645658542     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.862968     Document Type: Article

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