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The evaluation of the performance of a given positron camera design is an extremely complex problem; since so many physical (photon scattering, detector parallax…), and algorithmic (deconvolution filter, image post-processing) factors interfere to produce the final image to be used for medical diagnosis. The assessment of the quality of a given final image is also far from trivial, this problem being influenced by physical, physiological and psychological factors.
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Defrise, M., Deconinck, F., Kuijk, S., Bossuyt, A., Lacroix, V., Waligorski, M. (1986). Methodology for Predicting the Performance of Different Pet Camera Designs. In: Bacharach, S.L. (eds) Information Processing in Medical Imaging. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4261-5_32
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