Developments in instrumentation for emission computed tomography

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 28-41

  Daube Witherspoon, Margaret E ^a,b   Zubal, I George ^a,b   Karp, Joel S ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0037255515     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/snuc.2003.127295     Document Type: Review

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