Comparison of nonlinear position estimators for continuous scintillator detectors in PET

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 2518-2522

  Bruyndonckx, Peter ^a   Lemaître, Cedric ^a   Van Der Laan, D J ^b   Maas, Marnix ^b   Schaart, Dennis ^b   Devroede, Olivier ^a   Krieguer, Magalie ^a   Tavernier, Stefaan ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

APD ARRAY; POSITIONING ALGORITHMS;

POSITION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 38649137298     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354422     Document Type: Conference Paper

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