Toward a medipix2 coded aperture gamma microscope

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 2461-2464

  Accorsi, R ^a   Autiero, M ^c   Celentano, L ^b   Laccetti, P ^c   Lanza, R C ^d   Marotta, M ^c   Mettivier, G ^c   Montesi, M C ^c   Riccio, P ^c   Roberti, G ^c   Russo, P ^c  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b Dipartimento di Scienze Biomorfologiche e Funzionali   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL CORRELATION; RADIOISOTOPES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

GAMMA MICROSCOPES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING SYSTEMS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION SYSTEM TOMOGRAPHY;

MICROSCOPES;

EID: 23844463243     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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