An ultra high resolution ECG-gated myocardial imaging system for small animals

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 46, Issue 4 PART 2, 1999, Pages 1199-1202

  Wu, M C ^a   Tang, H R ^a   O'Connell, J W ^a   Gao, D W ^a   Da Silva, A J ^a   Iwata, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM (FWHM);

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SCINTILLATION;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033335652     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.790856     Document Type: Article

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