A New Modular Detector For A Cylindrical Brain Spect System

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 1489-1493

  Chang, Wei ^a   Liu, Jingai ^a   Kari, Bela ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDRICAL BRAIN SPECT SYSTEMS; GAMMA CAMERA;

ALUMINUM; BRAIN; CAMERAS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 0028493633     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.322936     Document Type: Article

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