Feasibility of a high-speed gamma-camera design using the high-yield-pileup-event-recovery method

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 624-632

  Wong, W H ^a   Li, H ^a   Uribe, J ^a   Baghaei, H ^a   Wang, Y ^a   Yokoyama, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coincidence; Detectors; Electronics; Gamma camera; PET; Pileups

Indexed keywords

RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRONICS; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; THEORY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GAMMA CAMERAS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0035043959     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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