Progress in BazookaSPECT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7450, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Miller, Brian W ^a   Barber, H Bradford ^a,b   Furenlid, Lars R ^a,b,c   Moore, Stephen K ^c   Barrett, Harrison H ^a,b,c  

^a College of Optical Sciences   (United States)

^b Department of Radiology ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

BazookaSPECT detectors; Columnar CsI(Tl); Fisher information; GPGPU; GPU; High performance computing; Maximum likelihood; Molecular imaging; Photon counting integrating detectors; Position estimation; SPECT

Indexed keywords

BAZOOKASPECT DETECTORS; COLUMNAR CSI(TL); FISHER INFORMATION; GPGPU; GPU; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHOTON-COUNTING INTEGRATING DETECTORS; POSITION ESTIMATION; SPECT;

AMPLIFICATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA PROCESSING; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; FORMAL METHODS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE SENSORS; LUMINESCENCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PHOTONS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

DETECTORS;

EID: 70449369408     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.843742     Document Type: Conference Paper

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