Effects of multiple photon interactions in a high resolution PET system that uses 3-D positioning detectors

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3814-3819

  Gu, Yi ^a   Pratx, Guillem ^a   Lau, Frances W Y ^a   Levin, Craig S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG SIGNALS; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CRYSTAL ARRAYS; DETECTOR PANELS; HIGH-RESOLUTION PET; LISTMODE; LSO CRYSTALS; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PET DATA; PHANTOM IMAGES; PHOTO PEAKS; PHOTON INTERACTIONS; PHOTON SCATTERING; POSITION SENSITIVE; SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS; SMALL SIZE; TOTAL ENERGY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; RESTORATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 67649148019     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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