Design and evaluation of headtome-IV, a whole-body positron emission tomograph

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 1006-1010

  Iida, Hidehiro ^a   Miura, Shuichi ^a   Kanno, Iwao ^a   Murakami, Matsutaro ^a   Takahashi, Kazuhiro ^a   Uemura, Kazuo ^a   Hirose, Yoshiharu ^b   Amano, Masaharu ^b   Yamamoto, Seiichi ^b   Tanaka, Kazumi ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN AND BLOOD VESSELS AKITA   (Japan)

^b Shimadzu   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING--COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL--REAL TIME OPERATION;

HEADTOME IV; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIONUCLIDE DECAY;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0024610786     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.34594     Document Type: Article

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