Determining detector requirements for medical imaging applications

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 409, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 501-507

  Clinthorne, Neal H ^a   Ng, Chor Yi ^b   Strobel, Joerg ^b,c   Hua, Chia Ho ^b   LeBlanc, James W ^b   Wilderman, Scott J ^b   Rogers, W L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cram r Rao lower bound; Noise; Noise propagation

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTODIODES; SCINTILLATION; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SILICON SENSORS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ANGER CAMERA SYSTEMS; COMPTON SCATTER CAMERAS; CRAMER-RAO BOUND;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 0032066437     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(97)01303-X     Document Type: Article

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