Detector Characterization and Detector Setup of a NaI-LSO PET/SPECT Camera

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 1420-1427

  Pichler, Bernd J ^a   Gremillion, Tim ^b   Ermer, Veronika ^a   Schmand, Matthias ^b   Bendriem, Bernard ^b   Schwaiger, Markus ^a   Ziegler, Sibylle I ^a   Nutt, Ron ^b   Miller, Steve D ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b CTI PET Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

NaI LSO detector; PET SPECT; Quadrant sharing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

MEDICAL SYSTEMS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142095004     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.817403     Document Type: Article

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