Count-rate dependent component-based normalization for the HRRT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 486-495

  Rodriguez, Mario ^b   Liow, Jeih San ^a,c   Thada, Shanthalaxmi ^d   Sibomana, Merence ^e   Chelikani, Sudhakar ^a,b   Mulnix, Tim ^b   Johnson, Calvin A ^f   Michel, Christian ^e   Barker, W Craig ^d   Carson, Richard E ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e Siemens Health Care   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Component based normalization; HRRT; MOLAR; Pile up effect

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT BASED NORMALIZATION; CRYSTAL LAYERS; LINES OF RESPONSE; PILE-UP EFFECT;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCANNING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34250692464     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2007.897824     Document Type: Article

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