Results from neural networks for recovery of PET triple coincidences

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3085-3087

  Michaud, Jean Baptiste ^a   Brunet, Charles Antoine ^a   Lecomte, Roger ^b   Fontaine, Rejean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN METHODS; COMPTON KINEMATICS; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DISCRIMINATION RATES; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; HIGH-RESOLUTION PET; IMAGE DEGRADATION; INTER-CRYSTAL COMPTON SCATTER; LINE-OF-RESPONSES; MONTE CARLO; MULTIPLE-COINCIDENCE; PIXELATED DETECTORS; SENSITIVITY INCREASE; VALIDATION RESULTS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DEGRADATION; GAMMA RAYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; POSITION MEASUREMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 79960335020     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5874367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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