The effect of detector performance on high countrate pet imaging with a tomograph based on position-sensitive detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 592-597

  Mankoff, David A ^a   Muehllehner, Gerd ^a   Karp, Joel S ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING - MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; RADIATION DETECTORS;

EMISSION-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HIGH COUNTRATE PET IMAGING; LESION DETECTABILITY; PENN-PET TOMOGRAPH; POSITION-SENSITIVE DETECTORS;

NUCLEAR MEDICINE;

EID: 0001276637     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.12793     Document Type: Article

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