Compact CT/SPECT small-animal imaging system

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 63-67

  Kastis, George A ^a   Furenlid, Lars R ^a   Wilson, Donald W ^a   Peterson, Todd E ^b   Barber, H Bradford ^a   Barrett, Harrison H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging; Cadmium zinc telluride (CdZnTe); Multimodality imaging; Single photon emission computed tomography; Small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON GUNS; GENES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; X RAYS;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; CADMIUM ZINC TELLURIDE (CDZNTE); MULTIMODALITY IMAGING; SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); SMALL-ANIMAL IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 2342516100     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.823337     Document Type: Article

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