A high-throughput whole-body PET scanner using flat panel PS-PMTs

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 2442-2446

  Watanabe, M ^a   Shimizu, K ^a   Omura, T ^a   Sato, N ^a   Takahashi, M ^a   Kosugi, T ^a   Ote, K ^a   Katabe, A ^a   Yamada, R ^a   Yamashita, T ^a   Tanaka, E ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THROUGHPUT;

AREA; AXIAL FIELDS; BLOCK DETECTORS; CRYSTAL RINGS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 19944426584     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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