A scatter-corrected list-mode reconstruction and a practical scatter/random approximation technique for dynamic PET imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2089-2106

  Cheng, Ju Chieh ^a   Rahmim, Arman ^a,b   Blinder, Stephan ^c   Camborde, Marie Laure ^c,d   Raywood, Kelvin ^c   Sossi, Vesna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Pacific Parkinson's Research Centre   (Canada)

^d Radiation Oncology Victoria   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTIMIZATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

PET IMAGING; RANDOM ESTIMATE; SCATTER CORRECTION METHOD; SINGLE SCATTER SIMULATION (SSS);

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HISTOGRAM; PERFORMANCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCALE UP; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34147126296     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/8/004     Document Type: Article

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