Initial results from the sherbrooke avalanche photodiode positron tomograph

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 3 PART 2, 1996, Pages 1952-1957

  Lecomte, R ^a   Cadorette, J ^a   Rodrigue, S ^a   Lapointe, D ^a   Rouleau, D ^a   Bentourkia, M ^a   Yao, R ^a   Msaki, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; PHOTODIODES; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANIMAL IMAGING; AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE DETECTORS; COUNT RATE; HISTOGRAM MODE; LABORATORY ANIMALS; RANDOM FRACTIONS; RELATIVE ACTIVITY RECOVERY; SCANNER; SCATTER FRACTIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION DEVICE;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030169128     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.507252     Document Type: Article

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