The design of a high resolution transformable wholebody PET camera

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2001, Pages 1213-1217

  Wong, Wai Hoi ^a   Uribe, Jorge ^a   Li, Hongdi ^a   Baghaei, Hossain ^a   Wang, Y ^a   Aykac, Mehmet ^a   Liu, Yaqiang ^a   Xing, Tao ^a   Bilgen, Deniz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; OPTICAL DESIGN; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; RADIOTHERAPY; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

HIGH RESOLUTION ONCOLOGIC TRANSFORMABLE TOMOGRAPHY; HIGH YIELD PILEUP EVENT RECOVER Y ELECTRONICS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PHOTOMULTIPLIER QUADRANT SHARING DETECTOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY CAMERA;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035555121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.803777     Document Type: Article

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