A method to include single photon events in image reconstruction for a 1 mm resolution PET system built with advanced 3-D positioning detectors

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1740-1745

  Chinn, Garry ^a,b   Foudray, Angela M K ^a,b   Levin, Craig S ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DETECTORS; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; KINEMATICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BAYESIAN PROJECTOR FUNCTIONS; PET IMAGING; POSITIONING DETECTORS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 38649139384     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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