Orbiting transmission source for positron tomography

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 735-739

  Huesman, R H ^a   Derenzo, S E ^a   Cahoon, J L ^a   Geyer, A B ^a   Moses, W W ^a   Uber, D C ^a   Vuletich, T ^a   Budinger, T F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA PROCESSING - DATA ACQUISITION;

CIRCULAR POSITRON TOMOGRAPH; DONNER 600-CRYSTAL POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPH; ORBITING TRANSMISSION SOURCE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPH; TRANSMISSION DATA ACQUISITION;

NUCLEAR MEDICINE;

EID: 0001465866     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.12822     Document Type: Article

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