A Multiplex "openPET" geometry to extend axial FOV without increasing the number of detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2644-2650

  Yamaya, Taiga ^a   Yoshida, Eiji ^a   Inadama, Naoko ^a   Nishikido, Fumihiko ^a   Shibuya, Kengo ^a   Higuchi, Makoto ^a   Murayama, Hideo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction; PET

Indexed keywords

AXIAL LENGTH; CONTINUOUS FIELDS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIPLE DETECTORS; NEW CONCEPT; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PET; PET SCANNER; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; WHOLE BODY;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; MULTIPLEXING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPAIR;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 70350164711     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2027437     Document Type: Article

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