Design Studies of a Depth Encoding Large Aperture PET Camera

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1041-1050

  Moisan, C ^a   Rogers, J G ^a   Buckley, K R ^a   Ruth, T J ^a   Stazyk, M W ^a   Tsang, G ^b  

^a TRIUMF ^*

^b TRIUMF   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; DETECTORS; ERROR CORRECTION; FORECASTING; GAMMA RAYS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SPECIFICATIONS;

BLOCK CANDIDATE SPECIFICATIONS; BLOCK DETECTOR; CAMERA RING RADIUS; DEPTH ENCODING LARGE APERTURE CAMERA; DEPTH OF INTERACTION; FIELD OF VIEW; PARALLAX ERROR;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029359613     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.467751     Document Type: Article

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