A proposal of an open PET geometry

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 757-773

  Yamaya, Taiga ^a   Inaniwa, Taku ^b   Minohara, Shinichi ^b   Yoshida, Eiji ^a   Inadama, Naoko ^a   Nishikido, Fumihiko ^a   Shibuya, Kengo ^a   Lam, Chih Fung ^a   Murayama, Hideo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT MONITORING;

CLAUSTROPHOBIA; DETECTOR RINGS; FIELD-OF-VIEW (FOV); LINES-OF-RESPONSE;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEASUREMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOBIC DISORDERS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 41849111306     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/3/015     Document Type: Article

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