Conceptual design of a compact positron tomograph for prostate imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 48, Issue 4 II, 2001, Pages 1506-1511

  Huber, J S ^a,b   Derenzo, S E ^a,b   Qi, J ^a,b   Moses, W W ^a,b   Huesman, R H ^a,b   Budinger, T F ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE IMAGING; PROSTATE TUMORS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; TUMORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035428583     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.958388     Document Type: Conference Paper

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