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The influence of photon depth of interaction and non-collinear spread of annihilation photons on PET image spatial resolution

Sánchez-Crespo et al., 2006

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14213030514068970688
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Sánchez-Crespo A
Larsson S
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European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging

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Purpose The quality of PET imaging is impaired by parallax errors. These errors produce misalignment between the projected location of the true origin of the annihilation event and the line of response determined by the coincidence detection system. Parallax errors are …
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