Investigation of motion induced errors in scatter correction for the HRRT brain scanner

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2935-2940

  Anton Rodriguez, Jose M ^a   Sibomana, Merence ^a   Walker, Matthew D ^a,d   Huisman, Marc C ^c   Matthews, Julian C ^a   Feldmann, Maria ^a,d   Keller, Sune H ^b   Asselin, Marie Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ATTENUATION MAPS; BRAIN SEGMENTATION; DYNAMIC STUDIES; EMISSION DATA; IMAGE ARTEFACTS; IMAGE BLURRING; MAP RECONSTRUCTION; MOTION CORRECTION; PATIENT MOTIONS; PET IMAGES; PET SCAN; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; RADIOACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; SCALING FACTORS; SCATTER CORRECTION; SIMULATION RESULT; SIMULATION-BASED; SINGLE SCATTER SIMULATION; TRANSMISSION DATA; VERAPAMIL;

ERRORS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; RADIOACTIVITY; SCATTERING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 79960318624     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5874334     Document Type: Conference Paper

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