Preliminary resolution performance of the prototype system for a 4-Layer DOI-PET scanner: JPET-D4

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1123-1128

  Yamaya, Taiga ^a   Hagiwara, Naoki ^b   Obi, Takashi ^b   Tsuda, Tomoaki ^c   Kitamura, Keishi ^d   Hasegawa, Tomoyuki ^e   Haneishi, Hideaki ^c   Inadama, Naoko ^a   Yoshida, Eiji ^a   Murayama, Hideo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

^e KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Depth of interaction (DOI); Maximum likelihood expectation maximization (ML EM); Positron emision tomography (PET); Statistical image reconstruction

Indexed keywords

4-LAYER DOI-PET SCANNER; DEPTH-OF-INTERACTION (DOI); DOI COMPRESSION (DOIC) METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION (ML-EM);

COST EFFECTIVENESS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BRAIN MODELS;

EID: 33746376604     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.871901     Document Type: Article

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