PET energy-based scatter estimation and image reconstruction with energy-dependent corrections

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2919-2937

  Popescu, L M ^a   Lewitt, Robert M ^a   Matej, Samuel ^a   Karp, Joel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ENERGY INFORMATION; ENERGY SPECTRUM; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; SCATTER ESTIMATION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33744799029     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/11/016     Document Type: Article

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