Experimental evaluation of a simple lesion detection task with time-of-flight PET

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 373-384

  Surti, S ^a   Karp, J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEGATIVE IONS; REPAIR; RESTORATION; SCANNING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CYLINDRICAL PHANTOMS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATIONS; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; LESION DETECTABILITY; LESION DETECTIONS; NEW GENERATIONS; NUMBER OF ITERATIONS; PET IMAGING; PET SCANNERS; PREWHITENING MATCHED FILTERS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGES; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; RELEVANT TASKS; TIME OF FLIGHTS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; FILTER; HUMAN; IMAGING; INFORMATION; MEASUREMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; PERFORMANCE; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 58149242601     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/2/013     Document Type: Article

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