An Integrated PET-SPECT Small Animal Imager: Preliminary results

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 47, Issue 4 PART 2, 2000, Pages 1537-1540

  Del Guerra, A ^a   Dainiani, C ^b   Di Domenico, G ^b   Motta, A ^c   Giganti, M ^a   Marchesini, R ^b   Piffanelli, A ^b   Sabba, N ^c   Sartori, L ^a   Zavattini, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c University of Ferrara ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROTATING DETECTORS;

DETECTORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCANNING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034244778     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.873012     Document Type: Article

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