Compact Compton camera design: Parameters and imaging algorithm

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Antich, P ^a   Parkey, R ^a   Slavin, N ^a   Tsyganov, E ^a   Zinchenko, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER EFFECT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

COMPACT COMPTON CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CAMERAS;

EID: 0034593601     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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