Investigation of deadtime characteristics for simultaneous emission-transmission data acquisition in PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 4 PART 2, 1998, Pages 2200-2204

  Tai, Yuan Chuan ^a   Chatiioannou, Arion ^a   Dahlbom, Magnus ^a   Hoffman, Edward J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOISOTOPES; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

SINOGRAMS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032142530     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.708345     Document Type: Article

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