The partial volume effect in PET / SPECT and benford's law

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1804-1808

  Wells, Kevin ^a   Chiverton, John ^a   Partridge, Mike ^c   Barry, Miriam ^b   Kadhem, Haval ^a   Ott, Bob ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

IMAGING MODALITIES; PARTIAL VOLUME (PV) VOXELS; PHANTOMS; PROBABILISTIC VOXEL CLASSIFICATION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846603078     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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