A pet camera simulator with multispectral data acquisition capabilities

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 1067-1074

  Lecomte, R ^a   Cadorette, J ^a   Rodrigue, S ^a   Heon M ^a   Bentourkia, M ^a   Msaki, P ^a   Rouleau, D ^a   Richard, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SAMPLING;

MULTICHANNEL ANALYZERS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0027646316     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.256714     Document Type: Article

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