Description of a prototype combined CT-SPECT system with a single CdZnTe detector

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Iwata, Koji ^a   Kwon, Soo Il ^a,b   Hasegawa, Bruce H ^a,c   Bennett, Paul R ^d   Cirignano, Len ^d   Shah, Kanai S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Kyonggi University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODES; BRAIN; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADIATION DETECTORS; READOUT SYSTEMS; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

CADMIUM ZINC TELLURIDE DETECTOR; PULSE COUNTING ELECTRONICS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034593621     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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