Parametric positioning of a continuous crystal PET detector with depth of interaction decoding

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1843-1863

  Ling, T ^a   Burnett, T H ^a   Lewellen, T K ^b   Miyaoka, R S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECODING; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; SCINTILLATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

INTERACTION DECODING; LIGHT DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETRIC POSITIONING;

CRYSTALS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHOTONS; PHYSICS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 42449145605     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/7/003     Document Type: Article

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