Sensitivity recovery for the AX-PET prototype using inter-crystal scattering events

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 4065-4083

  Gillam, John E ^a,e   Solevi, Paola ^a   Oliver, Josep F ^a   Casella, Chiara ^b   Heller, Matthieu ^c   Joram, Christian ^c   Rafecas, Magdalena ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA CORPUSCULAR IFIC   (Spain)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

inter crystal scattering; positron emission tomography (PET); sensitivity

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ANNIHILATION PHOTONS; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FIGURES OF MERITS; LINES OF RESPONSE; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SCATTERING EVENTS; SENSITIVITY;

INTELLIGENT CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PHOTON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84904748992     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/15/4065     Document Type: Article

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