Imaging simulations of an "openPET" geometry with shifting detector rings

Radiological Physics and Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 62-69

  Yamaya, Taiga ^a   Inaniwa, Taku ^b   Mori, Shinichiro ^b   Furukawa, Takuji ^b   Minohara, Shinichi ^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

Image reconstruction; PET

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 64249139592     PISSN: 18650333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12194-008-0046-x     Document Type: Article

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