Time of Flight in PET Revisited

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 1325-1330

  Moses, W W ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nuclear medicine; Positron emission tomography (PET); Time of flight; Timing resolution

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOSPHORS;

TIME OF FLIGHT;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142126690     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.817319     Document Type: Article

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