Cascade removal and microPET imaging with 76Br

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1503-1531

  Laforest, Richard ^a   Liu, Xiaodong ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE CORRECTIONS; ACCURATE MEASUREMENTS; ACTIVITY CONCENTRATIONS; ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS; ATTENUATION CORRECTIONS; DECAY PROCESS; END POINTS; FILTERED BACK PROJECTIONS; GAMMA-RAY COINCIDENCES; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; HIGH ENERGIES; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; LONG TAILS; MICROPET; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECTS; PET IMAGING; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTIONS; POSITRON RANGES; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGES; SMALL ANIMAL PET SCANNERS; SMALL-ANIMAL PETS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; ISOTOPES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; POSITRONS; STARS; X RAY CAMERAS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

BROMINE 76;

ARTICLE; GAMMA RADIATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; POSITRON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION PHYSICS;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BROMINE RADIOISOTOPES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 63649129374     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/6/008     Document Type: Article

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