Single scan parameterization of space-variant point spread functions in image space via a printed array: The impact for two PET/CT scanners

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2917-2942

  Kotasidis, F A ^a   Matthews, J C ^a   Angelis, G I ^a   Noonan, P J ^a   Jackson, A ^a   Price, P ^a   Lionheart, W R ^a   Reader, A J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; ANTISENSE; CARBON-11; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTRAST RECOVERY; FIELD OF VIEWS; FLUORINE-18; IMAGE BLURRING; IMAGE SPACE; IMAGE-BASED; MEASURED POINTS; ORDERED SUBSET EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; PET/CT SCANNERS; POINT SOURCES; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; PROJECTION SPACE; RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENT; RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SINGLE POINT SOURCE; SINGLE SCAN; STATISTICAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SYSTEM MATRICES;

ALGORITHMS; FLUORINE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SCANNING;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

2',3' DIDEOXYNUCLEOSIDE DERIVATIVE; 3' FLUOROTHYMIDINE; CARBON; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRINTING; SCINTISCANNING;

ABDOMEN; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; DIDEOXYNUCLEOSIDES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRINTING; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79955368529     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/10/003     Document Type: Article

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