Additional gains with time-of-flight PET at high counting rates: Lessons learned from early time-of-flight PET systems

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1491-1493

  Mullani, Nizar A ^a  

^a Translite LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 11; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; NITROGEN 13; OXYGEN 15; RUBIDIUM 82; TRACER;

IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; LETTER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE REDUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOACTIVITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; TIME;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77957033406     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.110.078618     Document Type: Letter

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