Advances in positron tomography for oncology

Nuclear Medicine and Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 659-667

  Budinger, Thomas F ^a   Brennan, Kathleen M ^a   Moses, William W ^a   Derenzo, Stephen E ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

annihilation photons; crystal penetration; PET instrumentation; photon interactions; resolution components; spatial resolution; statistics

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; ONCOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030220980     PISSN: 09698051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0969-8051(96)00063-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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