High pressure xenon electronically collimated camera for low energy gamma ray imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 44, Issue 6 PART 2, 1997, Pages 2408-2414

  Bolozdynya, Alexander I ^a   Egorov, Valery V ^b   Koutchenkov, Alexei V ^c,d   Safronov, Gennady A ^c,d   Smirnov, Gennady N ^d   Medved, Sergei A ^d   Morgunov, Vasiliy L ^d  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

ELECTRONIC COLLIMATION;

CAMERAS;

EID: 0031338804     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.656444     Document Type: Article

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