Investigation of single, random, and true counts from natural radioactivity in LSO-based clinical PET

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 109-114

  Yamamoto, Seiichi ^a,c   Horii, Hitoshi ^b   Hurutani, Mitsuru ^b   Matsumoto, Keiichi ^c   Senda, Michio ^c  

^a KOBE CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Nishijin Hospital   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coincidence; LSO; Natural radioactivity; PET

Indexed keywords

LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE; SILICATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; ELECTRON; ENERGY TRANSFER; GAMMA RADIATION; NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY; PHOTON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY;

EID: 19744363131     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03027389     Document Type: Article

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