Preliminary design studies of a high sensitivity small animal DOI-PET scanner: JPET-RD

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 6, Issue , 2004, Pages 3896-3900

  Kitamura, Keishi ^a,b   Yamaya, Taiga ^b   Yoshida, Eiji ^b   Tsuda, Tomoaki ^c   Inadama, Naoko ^b   Murayama, Hideo ^b  

^a SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; GENES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTODETECTORS;

ANODE SEGMENTATION; BACKGROUND NOISE; SCANNERS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844437316     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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