Singles transmission scans performed post-injection for quantitative whole body PET imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 44, Issue 3 PART 2, 1997, Pages 1329-1335

  Smith, R J ^a,b   Karp, J S ^b   Muehllehner, G ^a,c   Gualtieri, E ^b,c   Benard, F ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UGM Laboratory   (United States)

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EID: 0001472313     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.597009     Document Type: Article

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