A maximum NEC criterion for compton collimation to accurately identify true coincidences in PET

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1341-1352

  Chinn, Garry ^a   Levin, Craig S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D positioning detector; Compton collimation; iterative image reconstruction; Monte Carlo simulation; multiple photon coincidences; noise equivalent counts (NEC); positron emission tomography (PET); random coincidences

Indexed keywords

3-D POSITIONING DETECTOR; COMPTON; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MULTIPLE PHOTON COINCIDENCES; NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNTS; POSITRON EMISSION; RANDOM COINCIDENCES;

DETECTORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; POSITRONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

CADMIUM; CDZNTE; TELLURIUM; ZINC;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; CADMIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SEMICONDUCTORS; TELLURIUM; ZINC;

EID: 79959805803     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2011.2113379     Document Type: Article

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