The Countrate Performance of the Volume Imaging PENN-PET Scanner

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 610-618

  Smith, Robin J ^a   Karp, Joel S ^a   Muehllehner, Gerd ^b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UGM Medical Systems ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; DATA ACQUISITION; DETECTORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; NEUROLOGY; PERFORMANCE; RANDOM PROCESSES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COUNTRATE PERFORMANCE; DEADTIME CORRECTION; LIMITING PROCESS RATE; POSITION ENCODING; POSITION SENSITIVE DETECTOR; VOLUME IMAGING SCANNER;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0028695671     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.363107     Document Type: Article

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