PET instrumentation: What are the limits?

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 247-267

  Budinger, T F ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM DERIVATIVE; CARBON 11; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; NITROGEN 13; OXYGEN 15; RADIOISOTOPE;

INSTRUMENTATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REVIEW; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031851405     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-2998(98)80030-5     Document Type: Article

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