Effects of positron range and annihilation photon acolinearity on image resolution of a compton PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1543-1552

  Park, Sang June ^b   Rogers, W Leslie ^a,b   Clinthorne, Neal H ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Annihilation photon acolinearity; Compton PET; Monte Carlo simulation; Positron range

Indexed keywords

ANNIHILATION PHOTON ACOLINEARITY; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION (FBP); POSITRON RANGE;

COMPTON SCATTERING; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SILICON DETECTORS;

IMAGE RESOLUTION;

EID: 35348994487     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2007.902358     Document Type: Article

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