Reconstruction of PET images with a compressed Monte Carlo based system matrix - A comparison to other Monte Carlo based algorithms

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 2286-2290

  Rehfeld, Niklas ^a   Fippel, Matthias ^b   Alber, Markus ^b  

^a IEEE

^b NONE

Author keywords

Compression; Monte Carlo; Positron emission tomography; Reconstruction; System matrix

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPACTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SCANNING;

COMPRESSED MATRIX; DUAL MATRIX ALGORITHM; FULL MATRIX ALGORITHM; SYSTEM MATRIX;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846599805     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596791     Document Type: Conference Paper

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