Modeling and incorporation of system response functions in 3-D whole body PET

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 828-837

  Alessio, Adam M ^a,b   Kinahan, Paul E ^a,b   Lewellen, Thomas K ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Detector response; Fourier rebinning (FORE); Fully three dimensional (3 D) positron emission tomography (PET); System model; System response

Indexed keywords

DETECTOR RESPONSE; FOURIER REBINNING (FORE); FULLY THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3-D) POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SYSTEM MODELS; SYSTEM RESPONSE;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR DETECTION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 33746216301     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.873222     Document Type: Article

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