Imaging of Radionuclide Emissions with a Low-noise Charge-Coupled Device

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 979-982

  Karellas, Andrew ^a   Liu, Hong ^a   Harris, Lisa J ^a   Reinhardt, Christopher ^a   Brill, A B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; RADIOISOTOPES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

RADIONUCLIDE EMISSIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0027649738     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.256696     Document Type: Article

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