Incidence position estimation in a PET detector using a discretized positioning circuit and neural networks

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4507 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 684-691

  Mateo, Fernando ^a   Aliaga, Ramón José ^a   Martínez, Jorge Daniel ^a   Monzó, José María ^a   Gadea, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anger logic; Continuous scintillator; Discretized positioning circuit (DPC); Gamma camera; Multi layer perceptron (MLP); Neural networks; Photomultiplier tube (PMT); Positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ANGER LOGIC; CONTINUOUS SCINTILLATOR; DISCRETIZED POSITIONING CIRCUIT (DPC); GAMMA CAMERA;

POSITION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 38049125962     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73007-1_82     Document Type: Conference Paper

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