Septa design for a prostate specific PET camera

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1 I, 2005, Pages 107-113

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

^a University of California   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer detection; Positron emission tomography; Prostate cancer; Septa design; System optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTIGENS; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; TUMORS;

CANCER DETECTION; PROSTATE CANCER; SEPTA DESIGN; SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 17644387538     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.843132     Document Type: Article

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