A new generation of spect and pet systems based on position sensitive photomultipliers

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 1321-1327

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING--POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY--EQUIPMENT; ELECTRON TUBES, PHOTOMULTIPLIER--MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING--MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

BODY SCANNERS; HEAD SCANNERS; PET SCANNERS; POSITION SENSITIVE PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SPECT SCANNERS;

NUCLEAR MEDICINE;

EID: 0025440458     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.57383     Document Type: Article

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