Comparative Study of ECAT HRRT and microPET® R4 for animal PET studies

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 807-810

  Knoess, Christof ^a,d   Lenox, Mark ^c   Goble, Rhonda N ^b   Siegel, Stefan ^e   Smith, Anne M ^b   Vollmar, Stefan ^a   Winkeler, Alexandra ^a   Jacobs, Andreas ^a   Fluegge, Guenter ^d   Wienhard, Klaus ^a   Heiss, Wolf Dieter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Concorde Microsystems Inc ^*  (United States)

^c CPS Innovations   (United States)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; EXTRAPOLATION; INTERPOLATION; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS;

FIELD OF VIEW (FOV);

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142179126     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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