Design considerations and initial performance of a 1.2 cm2 beta imaging intra-operative probe

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 4 PART 1, 1996, Pages 2326-2335

  Tornai, Martin P ^a   MacDonald, Lawrence R ^a   Levin, Craig S ^a   Siegel, Stefan ^a   Hoffman, Edward J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOSPHORS; SCINTILLATION; TISSUE;

ANGER POSITIONING LOGIC; BETA IMAGING INTRA-OPERATIVE PROBE; DIFFERENTIAL IMAGE UNIFORMITY; NEUROSURGICAL LESION RESECTION; NUCLEAR EMISSION IMAGING; PHANTOM ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PHOTOELECTRONS; POLYSTYRENE LIGHT DIFFUSER; RADIOLABELED TUMORS;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 0030216978     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.531898     Document Type: Article

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