Modeling of scintillation camera systems

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1375-1381

  Woldeselassie, Tilahun ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Essentially nonparalyzable system; Normalized deadtime; Normalized resolving time; Paralyzing resolving deadtime; Threshold input rate

Indexed keywords

SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

DEADTIME; INPUT RATE; NON-PARALYZABLE; NORMALIZED RESOLVING TIME; OPERATING RANGES; SATISFACTORY MODELING; SCINTILLATION CAMERAS; TWO COMPONENT SYSTEMS;

CAMERAS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; GAMMA RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; SCINTILLATION CAMERA;

EID: 0032781831     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598634     Document Type: Article

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