Simultaneous reconstruction of activity and attenuation in Time-of-Flight PET

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2375-2382

  Rezaei, Ahmadreza ^a   Nuyts, Johan ^a   Defrise, Michel ^b   Bal, Girish ^c   Michel, Christian ^c   Conti, Maurizio ^c   Watson, Charles ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARTICLE BEAMS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ATTENUATION DISTRIBUTIONS; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SIMULTANEOUS RECONSTRUCTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHIES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84858690273     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6153883     Document Type: Conference Paper

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