Simulation studies of a new 'OpenPET' geometry based on a quad unit of detector rings

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1223-1233

  Yamaya, Taiga ^a   Inaniwa, Taku ^b   Yoshida, Eiji ^a   Nishikido, Fumihiko ^a   Shibuya, Kengo ^a   Inadama, Naoko ^a   Murayama, Hideo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE METHODS; AXIAL LENGTHS; CONTINUOUS FIELDS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; RIGHT AND LEFTS; SIMULATION STUDIES; STANDARD DEVIATIONS;

DETECTORS; LANDFORMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 63649083981     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/5/008     Document Type: Article

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