Design of a small animal PET imaging system with 1 microliter volume resolution

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 2067-2071

  Rouze, Ned C ^a   Schmand, Matthias ^b   Siegel, Stefan ^c   Hutchins, Gary D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Concorde Microsystems Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CONCORDE MICROSYSTEMS, INC (CO); FIELD-OF-VIEW (FOV); HANNING FILTER; PLANE DETECTOR;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 11844291319     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/nssmic.2003.1352287     Document Type: Conference Paper

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