cMiCE: A high resolution animal PET using continuous LSO with a statistics based positioning scheme

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages 1137-1141

  Joung, J ^a   Miyaoka, R S ^a   Lewellen, T K ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGER BASED DECODING; CONTINUOUS MINIATURE CRYSTAL ELEMENT DETECTOR; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; STATISTICS BASED POSITIONING ALGORITHM; USEFUL FIELD OF VIEW;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; DETECTORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035553649     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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