A simulation and modeling study comparing the performance of a germanium orthogonal strip detector and an Anger camera

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2002, Pages 1928-1932

  Gombia, Mirko ^a   Brill, Aaron B ^a   Bollini, Dante ^a   Del Guerra, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGER TYPE SCINTILLATION CAMERA; BREAST TUMOR IMAGING; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; GERMANIUM ORTHOGONAL STRIP DETECTOR; GERMANIUM PIXELLATED DETECTOR; PHANTOM GEOMETRY; THORAX;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TUMORS;

SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

EID: 0035552807     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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