First results of a dedicated breast PET imager, BPET, using NaI(Tl) curve plate detectors

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2001, Pages 1241-1245

  Freifelder, Richard ^a   Cardi, Chris ^a   Grigoras, Iuliana ^a   Saffer, Janet R ^a   Karp, Joel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

BREAST POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CLINICAL WHOLE BODY SCANNER; CURVE PLATE DETECTORS; LESSIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035554637     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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