Design of a small animal MR compatible pet scanner

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 46, Issue 3 PART 2, 1999, Pages 565-570

  Slates, Randal ^a,b   Cherry, Simon ^a   Boutefnouchet, Abdel ^b   Shao, Yiping ^a   Dahlbom, Magnus ^b   Van Farahani, Key ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOSPHORS;

LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE CRYSTALS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE COMPATIBLE POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033354253     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.775580     Document Type: Article

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