Design of an inexpensive high-sensitivity rodent-research PET camera (RRPET)

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 2058-2062

  Wong, Wai Hoi ^a   Li, Hongdi ^a   Xie, Shuping ^a   Ramirez, Rocio ^a   Kim, Soonseok ^a   Uribe, Jorge ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Liu, Yaqiang ^a   Xing, Tao ^a   Baghaei, Hossain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DECODING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTOELECTRICITY; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

AXIAL FIELD OF VIEW (AFOV); PHOTOMULTIPLIER-QUADRANT-SHARING (PQS); PROTOTYPE ELECTRONICS; SLAB-SANDWICH-SLICE (SSS);

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 19944425963     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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