A parallelizable compression scheme for Monte Carlo scatter system matrices in PET image reconstruction

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3421-3437

  Rehfeld, Niklas ^a   Alber, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; IMAGE COMPRESSION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETERIZATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICS;

B-SPLINE APPROXIMATION; COMPRESSION RATIOS; MONTE CARLO SCATTER SYSTEMS; SYSTEM MATRIX;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARAMETRIC TEST; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 34249752112     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/12/007     Document Type: Article

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