The design of a high-resolution transformable wholebody PET camera

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2079-2084

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging; Positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; RADIOTHERAPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BISMUTH GERMANATE CRYSTAL; GAIN-EQUALIZATION; PHOTOMULTIPLIER QUADRANT SHARING DETECTOR;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036815778     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.803777     Document Type: Article

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