Small Animal PET Imaging with Germanium Strip Detectors

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 1438-1442

  Phlips, B F ^a   Kroeger, R A ^a   Kurfess, J D ^a   Johnson, W N ^a   Wulf, E A ^a   Novikova, E I ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

STRIP DETECTORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142148049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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