The design of an animal PET: Flexible geometry for achieving optimal spatial resolution or high sensitivity

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 684-689

  Terstegge, Simone Weber Andreas ^a   Herzog, Hans ^a   Reinartz, Richard ^a   Peter Reinhart, Friedel Rongen ^a   Müller Gärtner, Hans Wilhelm ^a   Halling, Horst ^a   Weber, S ^a   Terstegge, A ^a   Reinartz, R ^a   Reinhart, P ^a   Rongen Are, F ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal pet; Pet instrumentation; Simulation; YAP

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PEROVSKITE; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PHARMACOKINETICS; PHOSPHORS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

POSITION SENSITIVE PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBES; YTTRIUM ALUMINUM PEROVSKITE;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALUMINUM; CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; OXIDE; PEROVSKITE; TITANIUM; YTTRIUM;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; LETTER; MICROCOMPUTER; PHARMACOKINETICS; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ALGORITHMS; ALUMINUM; ANIMALS; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROCOMPUTERS; OXIDES; PHARMACOKINETICS; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SOFTWARE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TITANIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; YTTRIUM;

EID: 0031240189     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.640759     Document Type: Article

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