Design and imaging studies of a position sensitive photomultiplier based dynamic spect system

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 1132-1137

  Singh, Manbir ^a   Brechner, Ricardo ^a   Leahy, Richard ^a   Yan, Xiao Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING--ALGORITHMS; ELECTRON TUBES, PHOTOMULTIPLIER; IMAGE PROCESSING--RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTONS--EMISSION; SAMPLING;

CHEMOTHERAPY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0024610485     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.34618     Document Type: Article

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