Positron range in PET imaging: An alternative approach for assessing and correcting the blurring

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3931-3943

  Jodal, L ^a   Le Loirec, C ^b   Champion, C ^c  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; CLOSEST DISTANCE; CUMULATIVE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; DEBLURRING; DETECTION LEVELS; EMPIRICAL FORMULAS; EMPIRICAL FUNCTIONS; HIGH ENERGY; LINE-OF-RESPONSES; MONTE CARLO CODES; PENELOPE; PET IMAGING; PET ISOTOPES; POSITRON EMISSION; POSITRON ENERGY; POSITRON RANGE; PROBABILITY DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; RADIAL DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; SMALL ANIMAL PET; STATISTICAL NOISE;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ISOTOPES; POSITRONS; RUBIDIUM;

ELECTRONS;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84862001092     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/12/3931     Document Type: Article

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