An analytical scatter correction for singles-mode transmission data in PET

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 402-412

  Vandervoort, Eric ^a,b   Sossi, Vesna ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attenuation corrections; Molecular imaging; Scatter corrections; Singles mode transmission; Small animal PET

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA TRANSFER; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS;

ATTENUATION CORRECTIONS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; SCATTER CORRECTIONS; SINGLES MODE TRANSMISSION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 40149100991     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2007.909851     Document Type: Article

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