Design Evaluation of A-PET: A High Sensitivity Animal PET Camera

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 1357-1363

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angerdetector; Animal imaging; GSO; High resolution; High sensitivity; Large axial FOV; PET imaging

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CODING; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

RADIOCHEMICAL YIELDS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142126686     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.817950     Document Type: Article

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