Improved PET lesion-detection performance using 2mm pixels

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Michael Morey, A ^a   Noo, Frédéric ^a   Kadrmas, Dan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

DETECTION PERFORMANCE; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; LOCALIZATION RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; NUMBER OF ITERATIONS; NUMERICAL OBSERVER; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTIONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); STRUCTURED BACKGROUND;

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EID: 84904156915     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829284     Document Type: Conference Paper

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