Fully three-dimensional OSEM-based image reconstruction for Compton imaging using optimized ordering schemes

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 5007-5027

  Kim, Soo Mee ^a   Lee, Jae Sung ^a   Lee, Chun Sik ^b   Kim, Chan Hyeong ^c   Lee, Myung Chul ^a   Lee, Dong Soo ^a   Lee, Soo Jin ^d  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^d PaiChai University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; EVALUATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; GAMMA CAMERAS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78149352223     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/17/009     Document Type: Article

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