A computing efficient PET time calibration method based on pseudoinverse matrices

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3889-3892

  Mann, Alexander B ^a   Paul, Stephan ^a   Tapfer, Arne ^b   Spanoudaki, Virginia C ^c   Ziegler, Sibylle I ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION METHOD; CALIBRATION PROBLEMS; CHANNEL NUMBER; COMPACT SOLVERS; DELAY VALUES; INDIRECT CALIBRATION; LEAST SQUARES SOLUTIONS; MATRIX; OPTIMAL CALIBRATION; PROBE MEASUREMENTS; PSEUDO-INVERSES; TIME RESOLUTION;

NUCLEAR PHYSICS; SECURITY OF DATA; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 77951189095     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5401925     Document Type: Conference Paper

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