A Monte Carlo investigation of the spatial resolution performance of a small-animal PET scanner designed for mouse brain imaging studies

Physica Medica

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 76-85

  Rodríguez Villafuerte, Mercedes ^a,b   Yang, Yongfeng ^b   Cherry, Simon R ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete cosine transform; High resolution imaging; Monte Carlo; Small animal PET

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM METHOD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOUSE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PET SCANNER; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES;

ANIMALIA;

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; MONTE CARLO; SMALL-ANIMAL PET;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84890130345     PISSN: 11201797     EISSN: 1724191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2013.03.004     Document Type: Article

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