Experimental assessment of resolution improvement of a zoom-in PET

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Qi, Jinyi ^a   Yang, Yongfeng ^a   Zhou, Jian ^a   Wu, Yibao ^a   Cherry, Simon R ^a  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; LESION DETECTABILITY; LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE; MICROPET; PET SCANNER; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE; POINT SOURCES; REAL SYSTEMS; REGION OF INTEREST; RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; TAPERED OPTICAL FIBERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SODIUM;

SCANNING;

LUTETIUM; LUTETIUM ORTHOSILICATE; SILICATE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUTETIUM; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICATES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 80052053090     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/17/N01     Document Type: Article

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