Direct time-of-flight for quantitative, real-time in-beam PET: A concept and feasibility study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 6795-6811

  Crespo, Paulo ^a,c   Shakirin, Georgy ^a   Fiedler, Fine ^a   Enghardt, Wolfgang ^a,b   Wagner, Andreas ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DETECTORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

HIGH-PRECISION IMAGES; TIME-OF-FLIGHT (TOF); TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE DISPLAY; IRRADIATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 36348936173     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/23/002     Document Type: Article

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