The jPET-D4: Imaging performance of the 4-layer depth-of-interaction PET scanner

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 1977-1980

  Yamaya, Taiga ^b   Yoshida, Eiji ^b   Satoh, Masanobu ^b   Tsuda, Tomoaki ^f   Kitamura, Keishi ^d   Obi, Takashi ^c   Hasegawa, Tomoyuki ^e   Haneishi, Hideaki ^f   Inadama, Naoko ^b   Tanada, Shuji ^b   Murayama, Hideo ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

^e KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPTH-OF-INTERACTION (DOI); HUFFMAN PHANTOM; MATRIX CALCULATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846635168     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596720     Document Type: Conference Paper

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