Windowed image reconstruction for time-of-flight positron emission tomography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3431-3445

  Kao, Chien Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; HEALTH; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LEAD; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEGATIVE IONS; PLASTIC BOTTLES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRONS; REPAIR; RESTORATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); TIME MEASUREMENT; TOMOGRAPHY;

DATA NOISE; INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATIONS; NEW MODES; PET DATA; PET IMAGING; POISSON NOISE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION METHODS; STATISTICAL QUALITY; TIME OF FLIGHT POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); TIME-OF-FLIGHT (TOF); TRANSVERSE DIRECTION (TD);

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 47649095893     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/13/002     Document Type: Article

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