Normalisation of histogrammed list mode data

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 543-551

  Thielemans, Kris ^a,b   Morel, Christian ^a,c   Jacobson, Matthew W ^d   Kaempf, Jerome H ^c   Mustafovic, Sanida ^b  

^a IEEE

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Data normalisation; List mode; PET

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

DATA NORMALIZATION; LIST MODE;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 39049112468     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2007.914207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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