Imaging performance of A-PET: A small animal PET camera

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 844-852

  Surti, Suleman ^a   Karp, Joel S ^a   Perkins, Amy E ^b   Cardi, Chris A ^c   Daube Witherspoon, Margaret E ^a   Kuhn, Austin ^a   Muehllehner, Gerd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger detector with gadolinium orthosilicate (GSO) or lutetium yttrium orthosilicate (LYSO); Animal positron emission tomography (PET) imaging; High resolution; High sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; PHOSPHORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANGER DETECTOR WITH GADOLINIUM ORTHOSILICATE (GSO); HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SENSITIVITY; PHOTOMULTIPLER TUBES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; CATS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MINIATURIZATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 23744467260     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.844078     Document Type: Article

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