Effect of inter-crystal scatter on estimation methods for random coincidences and subsequent correction

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2391-2411

  Torres Espallardo, I ^a   Rafecas, M ^b   Spanoudaki, V ^a   McElroy, D P ^c   Ziegler, S I ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

DELAYED WINDOW (DW); RANDOM COINCIDENCE ESTIMATION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPTON EFFECT; CRYSTAL; GEOMETRY; IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; VALIDITY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTERS; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 42449141551     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/9/012     Document Type: Article

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