An evaluation of image noise variance for time-of-flight PET

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 2041-2045

  Watson, Charles C ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE VARIANCE; NOISE VARIANCE; TIME-OF-FLIGHT (TOF) RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPUTATION THEORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33746360770     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596734     Document Type: Conference Paper

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