Gantry design with accurate crystal positioning for a high-resolution transformable PET camera

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1 I, 2005, Pages 119-124

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CRYSTALS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHOSPHORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

ELECTRONIC COMPONENT; FIELD OF VIEW (FOV); HIGH-RESOLUTION ONCOLOGIC TRANSFORMABLE PET (HOTPET); OPTICAL COUPLING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 20244367607     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.843145     Document Type: Article

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