Design of a small laboratory compton camera for the imaging of positron emitters

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3 PART 3, 2000, Pages 1155-1162

  Scannavini, M G ^a   Speller, R D ^a   Royle, G J ^b   Cullum, P ^b   Raymond, M ^c   Hall, G ^a   Lies, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPTON SCATTERING; POSITRON EMITTER; SILICON STRIP DETECTOR;

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034206731     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.856563     Document Type: Article

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