Statistical LOR estimation for a high-resolution dMiCE PET detector

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 6369-6382

  Champley, Kyle M ^a   Lewellen, Thomas K ^a   MacDonald, Lawrence R ^a   Miyaoka, Robert S ^a   Kinahan, Paul E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNIHILATION PHOTONS; CONDITIONAL EXPECTATION; CROSS SECTION; CRYSTAL PAIRS; DEPTH OF INTERACTIONS; DEPTH-OF-INTERACTION INFORMATIONS; DETECTOR ELEMENTS; DETECTOR MODULE; ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION PET; LIGHT COLLECTION; LIGHT-SHARING; LINE-OF-RESPONSES; MICRO-PIXEL; MONTE CARLO EXPERIMENTS; MULTIPLE INTERACTIONS; PET DETECTORS; PHOTO-SENSORS; PHOTON INTERACTIONS; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTERACTION;

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; DETECTORS; ESTIMATION; LIGHT; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALCULATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DESTRUCTION; KINETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; CALIBRATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KINETICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 71049179059     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/20/022     Document Type: Article

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