Isotope specific resolution recovery image reconstruction in high resolution PET imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Kotasidis, Fotis A ^a,c   Angelis, Georgios I ^b   Anton Rodriguez, Jose ^c   Matthews, Julian C ^c   Reader, Andrew J ^d,e   Zaidi, Habib ^a,f,g  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

brain imaging; HRRT; PET; point spread function; positron range; radioactive printing

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MAPPING; CARBON; ELECTRONS; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; ISOTOPES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRONS; RECOVERY; TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN IMAGING; HIGH-RESOLUTION RESEARCH TOMOGRAPH; HRRT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; MULTIPLE POINT SOURCES; PERFORMANCE BENEFITS; POSITRON RANGE; POSITRON-EMITTING ISOTOPES;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

CARBON 11; FLUORINE 18; METHIONINE C 11; CARBON; FLUORINE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NEUROIMAGING; PET SCANNER; POSITRON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRINTING; RADIOLOGY PHANTOM; ALGORITHM; BRAIN TUMOR; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC USE; EVALUATION STUDY; HEAD; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PROCEDURES; SCINTISCANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 84904876077     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4870985     Document Type: Article

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