Septa design for a prostate specific PET camera

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 2476-2480

  Qi, Jinyi ^a   Huber, Jennifer S ^a   Huesman, Ronald H ^a   Moses, William W ^a   Derenzo, Stephen E ^a   Budinger, Thomas F ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; DETECTORS; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; TUMORS;

LESION; NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNT (NEC); PET CAMERA; PROSTATE;

CAMERAS;

EID: 11844302225     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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