Post Injection Transmission Scanning In A Volume Imaging Pet Camera

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 1526-1531

  Smith, R J ^a   Karp, J S ^a   Muehllehner, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UGM Medical Systems ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; EMISSION CONTAMINATION; POST INJECTION TRANSMISSION SCANNING; SEPTA; SINOGRAM POSITION;

CAMERAS; CONTAMINATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; GAMMA RAYS; RADIATION DETECTORS; STATISTICS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0028494318     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.322943     Document Type: Article

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