Three-gamma annihilation imaging in positron emission tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 525-529

  Kacperski, Krzysztof ^a,b   Spyrou, Nicholas M ^b   Smith, F Alan ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Positron emission tomography; Three gamma annihilation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; POSITRONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

COUNTING RATES; PROOF OF PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THREE DECAY PHOTONS; THREE GAMMA ANNIHILATION IMAGING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GAMMA RADIATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GAMMA CAMERAS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHOTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 1942519409     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.824150     Document Type: Letter

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