Design considerations for PET scanners

Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 16-23

  Muehllehner, G ^a   Karp, J S ^a   Surti, S ^a  

^a UGM Laboratory Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Tomography, emission computed, instrumentation; Tomography, emission computed, methods

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; CRYSTAL; ELECTRONICS; LIGHT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REVIEW; SCINTILLATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 0036077575     PISSN: 11243937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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