Performance evaluation of the Pico-Count flow-through detector for use in cerebral blood flow PET studies

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 509-515

  Votaw, John R ^a   Shulman, Seth D ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Arterial blood radioactivity; Cerebral blood flow; Oxygen 15; PET

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; OXYGEN 15;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRONICS; PERFORMANCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0031906571     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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