Development of Skin Surface Radiation Detector System to Monitor Radioactivity in Arterial Blood Along with Positron Emission Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1455-1459

  Watabe, Hiroshi ^a   Miyake, Masayasu ^b   Narita, Yuichirou ^b   Nakamura, Takashi ^b   Itoh, Masatoshi ^c  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b Cyclotron and Radioisotope Center Tohoku University ^*

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; GAMMA RAYS; PHOSPHORS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIOACTIVITY; SKIN; TISSUE;

ARTERIAL BLOOD; DUAL PLASTIC SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; O-LABELED WATER; RADIOACTIVITY MONITOR SYSTEM; REGIONAL CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN SURFACE RADIATION DETECTOR SYSTEM;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029358343     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.467729     Document Type: Article

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