Processing of transmission data from an uncollimated single photon source

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

Volumn 569, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 416-420

  Dikaios, N ^a,b   Dinelle, K ^b   Spinks, T ^b   Nikita, K ^a   Thielemans, K ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

PET; Segmentation; Transmission processing

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

SINGLE PHOTON SOURCES; TRANSMISSION DATA; TRANSMISSION PROCESSING; TRANSMISSION SCAN;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33751420881     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2006.08.104     Document Type: Article

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