• DocumentCode
    832448
  • Title

    A High-Resolution Proportional Chamber Positron Camera and Its Applications

  • Author

    Jeavons, A.P. ; Townsend, D.W. ; Ford, N.L. ; Kull, K. ; Manuel, A. ; Fischer, O. ; Peter, M.

  • Author_Institution
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Volume
    25
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1978
  • Firstpage
    164
  • Lastpage
    173
  • Abstract
    A positron camera consisting of two high density proportional chambers is described. It provides a spatial resolution of 2.4 mm FWHM, a maximum data rate of 3000 c.p.s. and a sensitivity of 25 c.p.s. per ¿Ci. Results of its application to angular correlation studies of condensed matter and to phantom and in vivo medical imaging are presented. A Fourier deconvolution technique is described for obtaining three-dimensional medical images. It uses a generalized matrix inversion by singular value decomposition to modify the low frequency Fourier components.
  • Keywords
    Biomedical imaging; Cameras; Deconvolution; Frequency; Imaging phantoms; In vivo; Matrix decomposition; Positrons; Singular value decomposition; Spatial resolution;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9499
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TNS.1978.4329298
  • Filename
    4329298