Influence of the time of flight information on the reconstruction of in-beam PET data

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 4395-4396

  Shakirin, Georgy ^a,b   Crespo, Paulo ^c   Braess, Henning ^d   Enghardt, Wolfgang ^b,e  

^a IEEE

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^e DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 48149114506     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4437086     Document Type: Conference Paper

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