Completion of a truncated attenuation image from the attenuated PET emission data

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2123-2127

  Nuyts, Johan ^a   Michel, Christian ^b   Fenchel, Matthias ^c   Bal, Girish ^b   Watson, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ATTENUATION MAPS; EMISSION DATA; FIELD OF VIEWS; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI ALGORITHM; PET CAMERA; POSITRON EMISSION; RESEARCH GROUPS; TOMOGRAPHS; TRANSAXIAL FIELD;

GAMMA RAYS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 79960312421     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5874154     Document Type: Conference Paper

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