Application-Specific Small Field-of-View Nuclear Emission Imagers in Medicine

Emission Tomography: The Fundamentals of PET and SPECT

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 293-334

  Levin, Craig ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012744482-6.50019-3     Document Type: Chapter

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