Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 6 , Pages 680-686 , July 2008

MicroPET reconstruction with random coincidence correction via a joint Poisson model

  • Tai-Been Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, I-Shou University, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Jyh-Cheng Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, ROC
    • Department of Education and Research, Taipei City Hospital, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Henry Horng-Shing Lu

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Statistics, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta Hsueh Road, Hsinchu 30050, Taiwan, ROC
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +886 3 5731870; fax: +886 3 5728745.
    • ,
  • Ren-Shyan Liu

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, ROC

Received 27 March 2006 ,Revised 19 May 2007 ,Accepted 23 May 2007.

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PII: S1350-4533(07)00101-4

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.05.013

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 6 , Pages 680-686 , July 2008

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