Real-time imaging system for the OpenPET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 59, Issue 1 PART 1, 2012, Pages 40-46

  Tashima, Hideaki ^a   Yoshida, Eiji ^a   Kinouchi, Shoko ^a,b   Nishikido, Fumihiko ^a   Inadama, Naoko ^a   Murayama, Hideo ^a   Suga, Mikio ^b   Haneishi, Hideaki ^b   Yamaya, Taiga ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction; Positron emission tomography; Real time tumor tracking; System architecture

Indexed keywords

A-FRAMES; AVERAGE DELAY; COUNT RATES; FRAMES PER SECONDS; GENERAL-PURPOSE COMPUTING; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; LIST MODE DATA; LISTMODE; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; ONE-PASS; PET SCAN; POSITRON EMISSION; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; REAL TIME TRACKING; REAL-TIME TUMOR TRACKING; REALTIME IMAGING; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; RECONSTRUCTION SPEED; ROW-ACTION MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ALGORITHMS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; TOTAL COUNTS; TRANSFER CONTROL;

DATA TRANSFER; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84857357292     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2011.2169988     Document Type: Article

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