Noise properties of simultaneous dual tracer PET imaging

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 2611-2614

  Verhaeghe, J ^a   D'Asseler, Y ^a   Staelens, S ^a   Lemahieu, I ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cramer Rao lower bound; Dual tracer PET

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; RAY TRACING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CRAMER RAO LOWER BOUND (CRLB); HALF LIVES; PARAMETRIC ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION (PIR); TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846630524     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596873     Document Type: Conference Paper

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