Quantitative image reconstruction for the RatCAP PET tomograph

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 2736-2739

  Southekal, Sudeepti S ^a   Purschke, Martin ^b   Park, Sang June ^d,e   Junnarkar, Sachin S ^d   Pratte, Jean Francois ^d   Stoll, Sean P ^b   Sehlyer, David J ^f   Woody, Craig L ^b   Vaska, Paul ^c  

^a St Francis Hospital The Heart Center   (United States)

^b Physics Department

^c Medical Department

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS;

BRAIN FUNCTIONS; PHOTON SCATTER; RANDOM COINCIDENCES;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 38549170920     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.356445     Document Type: Conference Paper

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