Compensation strategies for PET scanners with unconventional scanner geometry

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 2524-2528

  Gundlich, Brigitte ^a,b   Weber, Simone ^a,b   Oehler, May ^b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b RheinAhrCampus Remagen ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

ClearPET Neuro; Geometrical sensitivity; Inhomogeneous and incomplete sinograms; PET

Indexed keywords

FILTERED BACKPROJECTION (FBP); FOURIER REBINNING (FORE); GEOMETRICAL SENSITIVITY; INHOMOGENEOUS SINOGRAMS; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SENSORS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846626075     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596853     Document Type: Conference Paper

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