Comparing geometries for a PET system with 3-D photon positioning capability

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1709-1712

  Chinn, Garry ^a,b   Foudray, Angela M K ^a,c   Levin, Craig S ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST RECOVERY COEFFICIENT (CRC); INTER-MODULE GAPS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR (MSE); RADIAL POSITION;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846642005     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596649     Document Type: Conference Paper

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