Continuous and Discrete Data Rebinning in Time-of-Flight PET

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1310-1322

  Defrise, Michel ^a   Panin, Vladimir ^b   Michel, Christian ^b   Casey, Michael E ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction; positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THORAX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THORAX;

EID: 54449093992     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.922688     Document Type: Article

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