Two new strategies to increase the signal to noise ratio in positron volume imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 956-961

  Thompson, C J ^a   Picard, Y ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

POSITRON VOLUME IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0027644294     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.256692     Document Type: Article

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