A High-Performance VME-Based acquisition system for positron emission mammography

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2002, Pages 1947-1951

  Abbott, D J ^a   Weisenberger, A ^a   Majewski, S ^a   Kieper, D ^a   Kross, B ^a   Popov, V ^a   Wojick, R ^a   Raylman, R R ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POSITION-SENSITIVE PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION MAMMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL COMPUTING; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; READOUT SYSTEMS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035554614     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2001.1009205     Document Type: Article

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