An Evaluation of a Two-Dimensional Array Detector for High Resolution PET

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 264-272

  Dahlbom, Magnus ^a   Hoffman, Edward J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING--COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA PROCESSING--DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRON TUBES, PHOTOMULTIPLIER; NUCLEAR MEDICINE;

BISMUTH GERMANATE (BGO) CRYSTALS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAY DETECTOR;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 0024143307     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.14508     Document Type: Article

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