Design and modeling of the hybrid portable gamma camera system

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3 PART 1, 1998, Pages 963-969

  Smith, L E ^a   He, Z ^a   Wehe, O K ^a   Knoll, G F ^a   Wilderman, S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAYS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT;

GAMMA RAY IMAGING SYSTEM; HYBRID PORTABLE GAMMA CAMERAS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032100010     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.682687     Document Type: Article

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