Use of a central positron emitting reference source to improve the timing alignment of a singles list-mode small animal PET scanner

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 50-54

  McElroy, D P ^a,b   Thompson, C J ^a,c   Spanoudaki, V ^a,b   Ziegler, S I ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Image analysis and processing; NMIS; PET instrumentation; Reconstruction algorithms

Indexed keywords

RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; TIMING ALIGNMENT; TIMING RESOLUTION;

DETECTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; POSITRON ANNIHILATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

SCANNING;

EID: 33847731074     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.887469     Document Type: Article

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