Contribution of normalization to image noise for the Siemens Inveon small-animal PET scanner

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 605, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 433-435

  Visser, Eric P ^a   Disselhorst, Jonathan A ^a   Laverman, Peter ^a   Gotthardt, Martin ^a   Oyen, Wim J G ^a   Boerman, Otto C ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Image noise; Normalization; Positron emission tomography; Small animal

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT BASED; CONTROL PROCEDURES; DETECTOR ELEMENTS; IMAGE NOISE; LINES OF RESPONSE; MINIMUM TIME; NORMALIZATION; NORMALIZATION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SCAN DURATION; SIEMENS; SMALL ANIMAL PET; SMALL-ANIMAL;

IMAGE QUALITY; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; SCANNING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 67649398870     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.04.010     Document Type: Article

References (3)

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