High accuracy multiple scatter modelling for 3D whole body PET

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 829-847

  Markiewicz, P J ^a,b   Tamal, M ^a   Julyan, P J ^b   Hastings, D L ^b   Reader, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPTON SCATTERING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ENERGY THRESHOLDS; IMAGE SPACE; SCATTER COMPENSATION METHODS; SCATTER DISTRIBUTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPTON EFFECT; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY PET; ALGORITHM; BIOPHYSICS; HUMAN; PHOTON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 34047261414     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/3/021     Document Type: Article

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