PET prostate imaging with small planar detectors

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 2806-2809

  Turkington, Timothy G ^a   Smith, Mark F ^b   Hawk, Thomas C ^a   Majewski, Stan ^b   Kross, Brian J ^b   Wojcik, Randy ^b   Weisenberger, Andrew G ^b   DeGrado, Timothy R ^c   Coleman, R Edward ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRIC SENSITIVITY; PET PROSTATE IMAGING; PLANAR DETECTORS; RADIAL POSITIONING;

DETECTORS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; TUMORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844467270     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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