Investigation of the Count Rate Performance of General Electric Advance Positron Emission Tomograph.

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1051-1057

  Lewellen, T K ^a   Kohlmyer, S G ^a   Miyaoka, R S ^a   Schubert, S ^a   Stearns, C W ^b  

^a University of Washington and GE Medical Systems ^*

^b GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA PROCESSING; DETECTORS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ERROR CORRECTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SORTING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADVANCE SCANNER; COINCIDENCE SYSTEM; COUNT RATE PERFORMANCE; DEAD TIME/SCATTER CORRECTIONS; DETECTOR BLOCK; EVENT SORTER; PHANTOMS; RECONSTRUCTION SOFTWARE;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029359446     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.467750     Document Type: Article

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