YAP-(S)PET Small Animal Scanner: Quantitative Results

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 1351-1356

  Di Domenico, G ^a   Zavattini, G ^a   Moretti, E ^a   Piffanelli, A ^a   Giganti, M ^a   Motta, A ^b   Sabba, N ^a   Uccelli, L ^a   Benini, E ^a   Duatti, A ^a   Bolzati, C ^a   Boschi, A ^a   Del Guerra, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calibration; Cardiac radiotracers; Image processing; Quantitation; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); Small animal imaging; Tomography

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SCANNING;

QUANTITATION;

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

EID: 10744228359     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.817970     Document Type: Article

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