Performance evaluation of scatter modeling of the GPU-based "tera-tomo" 3D PET reconstruction

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4086-4088

  Magdics, Milán ^a   Szirmay Kalos, László ^a   Tóth, Balázs ^a   Légrády, Dávid ^a   Cserkaszky, Áron ^a   Balkay, László ^b   Domonkos, Balázs ^c   Völgyes, Dávid ^c   Patay, Gergely ^c   Major, Péter ^c   Lantos, Judit ^c   Bükki, Tamás ^c  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^c Mediso Medical Imaging Systems Ltd   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; MULTIPLE COMPTON SCATTERING; PET RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTON SCATTERING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SCATTER CORRECTION; SINGLE SCATTER SIMULATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84858667222     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6153777     Document Type: Conference Paper

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