Development of a daily quality check procedure for the high resolution research tomograph (HRRT) using natural LSO background radioactivity

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages 1115-1119

  Knoess, Christof ^a   Gremillion, Tim ^a   Schmand, Matthias ^a   Casey, Mike E ^a   Eriksson, Lars ^a   Lenox, Mark ^a   Treffert, Jon T ^a   Vollmar, Stefan ^a   Fluegge, Guenter ^a   Wienhard, Klaus ^a   Heiss, W D ^a   Nutt, Ron ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDITION MONITORING; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; RADIOACTIVITY;

BACKGROUND RADIOACTIVITY; BUILT-IN TRANSMISSION SOURCE; DAILY QUALITY CHECK; DEPTH OF INTERACTION; DETECTOR BLOCK EFFICIENCIES; FIELD OF VIEW; HIGH RESOLUTION RESEARCH TOMOGRAPH; LINES OF RESPONSE; PULSE SHAPE DISCRIMINATION; UNIFORM BLANK SCAN;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035553536     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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