Performance Measurements of a Pixelated NaI(Tl) PET Scanner

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 373-377

  Perkins, A E ^a   Muehllehner, G ^a   Surti, S ^b   Karp, J S ^b  

^a PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical nuclear imaging; Nal (Tl) scintillator; performance measurements; positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

BIOMEDICAL NUCLEAR IMAGING; IMAGE CONTRAST; OPTICALLY CONTINUOUS LIGHTGUIDE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT; PIXELATED SCANNERS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

EID: 0038382167     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.812439     Document Type: Article

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