A performance study of the next generation PET using a new histogramming method for the DOI detector

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1909-1912

  Hagiwara, Naoki ^a   Obi, Takashi ^a   Yamaya, Taiga ^a   Yamaguchi, Masahiro ^a   Ohyama, Nagaaki ^a   Kitamura, Keishi ^b   Haneishi, Hideaki ^c   Murayama, Hideo ^d  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SCANNING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

HISTOGRAMMING; LINE-OF-RESPONSE (LOR); LINER INTERPOLATION; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (NIRS);

DETECTORS;

EID: 11844278255     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/nssmic.2003.1352252     Document Type: Conference Paper

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