A practical block detector for a depth-encoding pet camera

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 6 PART 2, 1996, Pages 3240-3248

  Rogers, Joel G ^a  

^a TRIUMF   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; GAMMA RADIOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADIATION DETECTORS;

DEPTH ENCODING CAMERAS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030350170     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.552726     Document Type: Article

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