Count-rate statistics of the gamma camera

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2939-2947

  Engeland, U ^a   Striker, T ^a   Luig, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA CAMERAS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RADIOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031683518     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/10/019     Document Type: Article

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