Post-injection transmission scans in a pet camera operating without septa with simultaneous measurement of emission activity contamination

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 4 PART 1, 1996, Pages 2207-2212

  Smith, Robin J ^a   Karp, Joel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CALCULATIONS; CAMERAS; DATA ACQUISITION; GAMMA RAYS; GERMANIUM; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEASUREMENTS; ONCOLOGY; PHOTODETECTORS; SCANNING; TABLE LOOKUP;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; EMISSION CONTAMINATION; FIELD OF VISION; PHANTOM; POST INJECTION TRANSMISSION; SCANNER; SEPTA; STANDARDIZED UPTAKE VALUES; TUMOR;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030214069     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.531883     Document Type: Article

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