2D linear and iterative reconstruction algorithms for a PET-insert scanner

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 4293-4310

  Pal, Debashish ^a   O'Sullivan, Joseph A ^a   Wu, Heyu ^b   Janecek, Martin ^c   Tai, Yuan Chuan ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKPROPAGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE DECODING;

FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION (FBP); HIGH RESOLUTION DETECTORS; INSERT-SCANNER GEOMETRY;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ABDOMEN; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREAST; GEOMETRY; HEAD; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INSERT DEVICE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NECK; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SCINTISCANNING; TUMOR;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 34547358984     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/14/018     Document Type: Article

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