Performance evaluation of the whole-body PET scanner ECAT EXACT HR+ following the IEC standard

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 44, Issue 3 PART 2, 1997, Pages 1172-1179

  Adam, Lars Eric ^a   Zaers, Joachim ^a   Ostertag, Hermann ^a   Trojan, Herbert ^a   Bellemann, Matthias E ^a   Brix, Gunnar ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

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EID: 0001171133     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.596983     Document Type: Article

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