A modular VME or IBM PC based data acquisition system for multi-modality PET/CT scanners of different sizes and detector types

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Crosetto, Dario B ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; DOSIMETRY; ONCOLOGY; PHOTONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEPTH OF INTERACTION; MULTI-MODALITY SCANNER; SEQUENTIALLY IMPLEMENTED PARALLEL ARCHITECTURE;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034593847     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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