PET alignment for small animal scanners based on capillary detection

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3832-3835

  Rodríguez Ruano, Alexia ^a   Pascau, Javier ^a   Chamorro, Judit ^a   Sisniega, Alejandro ^a   Garcia Vázquez, Verónica ^a   Udías, Ángel ^b   Vaquero, Juan José ^a   Desco, Manuel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT PARAMETER; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; DUAL-MODALITY SYSTEMS; GEOMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS; GEOMETRICAL RELATIONSHIP; GLASS CAPILLARIES; LABORATORY MATERIALS; LINE DETECTION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NON-COPLANAR; POINT SOURCES; REGISTRATION PROCESS; SMALL ANIMAL; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; SPATIAL TRANSFORMATION; TRANSFORMATION PARAMETERS; TRIANGULAR GEOMETRY; VISUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS;

CALIBRATION; CAPILLARITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SODIUM;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 67649148584     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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