An Evaluation of Post Injection Transmission Measurement in PET1

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 1538-1544

  Turkington, Timothy G ^a   Coleman, R Edward ^a   Schubert, Scott F ^b   Ganin, Alex ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION SCAN POSITION; LINE OF RESPONSE; MYOCARDIUM INSERT; ORBITING PIN TRANSMISSION SOURCES; PHANTOM; POST INJECTION TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENT; TRANSMISSION ACQUISITION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONTAMINATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTONS; RADIOACTIVITY; SCANNING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0028493566     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.322945     Document Type: Article

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