Image reconstruction for a partially collimated whole body PET scanner

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 975-983

  Alessio, Adam M ^a,b   Schmitz, Ruth E ^a,b   MacDonald, Lawrence R ^a,b   Wollenweber, Scott D ^a,c   Stearns, Charles W ^a,c   Ross, Steven G ^a,c   Ganin, Alex ^a,c   Lewellen, Thomas K ^a,b   Kinahan, Paul E ^a,b  

^a IEEE

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

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

2.5D; Collimation; Fully 3 d PET; Normalization; Scatter estimation; Septa

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PLASTIC BOTTLES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPAIR; RESTORATION;

3-D RECONSTRUCTIONS; COUNT RATES; IMAGE-BASED; PARTIAL COLLIMATION; PET SCANNERS; QUALITY DATA; RECONSTRUCTION METHODS; SCATTER CORRECTIONS; SIMULATED DATA; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2-D) SYSTEMS; WHOLE BODY (WB);

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; BOTTLES; COLLIMATION; EMISSION; EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL SURGICAL SUPPLIES; OPTICAL SCATTERING; PLASTIC CONTAINERS; PROTONS; SCANNERS; SEPTA; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 45849098002     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.921938     Document Type: Conference Paper

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