Image quality improvements with time-of-flight positron emission tomography for molecular imaging

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn V, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Manjeshwar, Ravindra M ^a   Shao, Yiping ^a   Jansen, Floris P ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN IMAGING; DETECTOR TECHNOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NOISE METRICS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT; TIMING RESOLUTION;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 33646777462     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1416438     Document Type: Conference Paper

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