Feasibility study of a gas microstrip detector for medical applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3032, Issue , 1997, Pages 459-468

  Giakos, George C ^a   Chowdhury, Samir ^a   Vedantham, Srinivasan ^a   Dasgupta, Amlan ^a   Pillai, Bindu ^a   Ghotra, P ^a   Suryanarayanan, Sankararaman ^a   Odogba, J ^a  

^a The University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; GAS DETECTORS; GASES; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PLANNING; RADIOGRAPHY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TOMOGRAPHY; XENON;

DIGITAL IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GAS COMPOSITIONS; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; MICROSTRIP (MSL); MULTIPLICATION FACTOR;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0002297826     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.274016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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