A residual correction method for high-resolution PET reconstruction with application to on-the-fly Monte Carlo based model of positron range

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 704-713

  Fu, Lin ^a   Qi, Jinyi ^a  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

Iterative image reconstruction; On the fly Monte Carlo simulation; Positron range modeling; Residual correction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTRONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS;

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI RECONSTRUCTION; ON THE FLIES; POSITRON RANGE; RESIDUAL CORRECTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 75749126618     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3284980     Document Type: Article

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