Measured spatially variant system response for PET image reconstruction

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 1986-1990

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

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

PET; PSF; Quantitation; Statistical reconstruction; System modeling

Indexed keywords

RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; STATISTICAL RECONSTRUCTION; SYSTEM MODELING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 33746231765     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596722     Document Type: Conference Paper

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