Implementation of on-the-fly scatter correction using dual energy window method in continuous 3D whole body PET scanning

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 2497-2500

  Ishikawa, Akihiro ^a   Kitamura, Keishi ^a   Mizuta, Tetsuro ^a   Tanaka, Kazumi ^a   Amano, Masaharu ^a   Inoue, Yoshihiro ^a   Matsumoto, Keiichi ^b   Senda, Michio ^b  

^a SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS EMISSION AND SPIRAL TRANSMISSION (CEST); CONVOLUTION SUBTRACTION; ENERGY ACQUISITION; SCATTER CORRECTION;

IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PATIENT MONITORING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; THROUGHPUT;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 33846625609     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596847     Document Type: Conference Paper

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