Implementation of cylindrical PET scanners with block detector geometry in STIR

EJNMMI Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Khateri, Parisa ^a   Fischer, Jannis ^a   Lustermann, Werner ^a   Tsoumpas, Charalampos ^b   Dissertori, Günther ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

PET image reconstruction; SAFIR; Scanner geometry; STIR

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFTWARE FOR TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 85069933504     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21977364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40658-019-0248-9     Document Type: Article

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