Clinical impact of time-of-flight and point response modeling in PET reconstructions: a lesion detection study
Schaefferkoetter J, Casey M, Townsend D, Fakhri G. Clinical impact of time-of-flight and point response modeling in PET reconstructions: a lesion detection study. Physics In Medicine And Biology 2013, 58: 1465-1478. PMID: 23403399, PMCID: PMC3616316, DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/5/1465.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPoint spread functionTime-of-flightBenefit of TOFPET reconstructionNumerical modelOptimal reconstruction parametersLocalization receiver operating characteristicsLesion-detection studiesObserved SNRReconstruction schemeSpread functionReconstruction parametersPerformanceNumerical observationsPatient images