Recovery and normalization of triple coincidences in PET

Medical Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1398-1410

  Lage, Eduardo ^a   Parot, Vicente ^a   Moore, Stephen C ^b   Sitek, Arkadiusz ^b   Udías, Jose M ^c   Dave, Shivang R ^a   Park, Mi Ae ^b   Vaquero, Juan J ^d   Herraiz, Joaquin L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

interdetector scatter; noise equivalent count rate; normalization correction; PET; triple coincidences; triple random events

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MEDICAL IMAGING; RECOVERY; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; INTERDETECTOR SCATTER; NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNT RATES; NORMALISATION; NORMALIZATION CORRECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS; SPATIAL CONTRAST; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TRIPLE COINCIDENCE; TRIPLE RANDOM EVENT;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; GAMMA RADIATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERDETECTOR SCATTERED EVENT; LINE OF RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOUSE; NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNT; NONHUMAN; PET-CT SCANNER; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION RELATED PHENOMENA; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RAT; SCANNER SENSITIVITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TRIPLE COINCIDENCE; ANIMAL; DEVICES; PROCEDURES;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84923923588     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: 24734209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4908226     Document Type: Article

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