Effects of multiple-interaction photon events in a high-resolution PET system that uses 3-D positioning detectors

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 5494-5508

  Gu, Yi ^a   Pratx, Guillem ^b   Lau, Frances W Y ^a   Levin, Craig S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D positioning detectors; breast imaging; high resolution PET; intercrystal scatter; iterative image reconstruction; scintillation detectors

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; DATA ACQUISITION; DEPOSITION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOACTIVITY; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SPHERES;

BREAST IMAGING; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; HIGH-RESOLUTION PET; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POSITION SENSITIVE AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS; SINGLE PHOTON SENSITIVITY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 77957711783     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3483262     Document Type: Article

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