Online detector response calculations for high-resolution PET image reconstruction

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 4023-4040

  Pratx, Guillem ^a   Levin, Craig ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FORMULATION; ANALYTICAL MODEL; BACK-PROJECTION; CONTRAST RECOVERY; DETECTOR RESPONSE; FIELD OF VIEWS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HIGH-RESOLUTION PET; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; LISTMODE; POSITRON EMISSION; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; SHIFT INVARIANT; SMALL DETECTORS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYSTEM RESPONSE; VOLUME ELEMENTS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SPHERES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TIME;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960365685     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/13/018     Document Type: Article

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