Preliminary studies on the design and simulation of high resolution small animal PET scanners with octagonal geometry

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 2053-2057

  Ortuno, Juan E ^a   Vaquero, Juan J ^a   Kontaxakis, George ^a   Desco, Manuel ^a   Santos, Andres ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTEGRATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PROBABILITY; SIMULATORS;

BAYESIAN REGULARIZATION; DEPTH OF INTERACTION (DOI); FIELD OF VIEW (FOV); POSITION-SENSITIVE PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBE (PS-PMT);

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 11844289590     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/nssmic.2003.1352284     Document Type: Conference Paper

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