Rebinning and reconstruction techniques for 3D TOF-PET

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 569, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 421-424

  Vandenberghe, Stefaan ^a   Karp, Joel ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Iterative; MLEM; PET; Reconstruction; TOF PET

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ITERATIVE LISTMODE RECONSTRUCTION; MLEM; REAL TIME RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME OF FLIGHT (TOF) POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET);

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 33751393223     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2006.08.065     Document Type: Article

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