The NEC dependence of different scintillators for Positron Emission Tomography

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 6, Issue , 2004, Pages 3785-3788

  Eriksson, L ^a,b   Townsend, D ^c   Eriksson, M ^a   Casey, M E ^a   Conti, M ^a   Bendriem, B ^a   Nutt, R ^d  

^a CPS Innovations   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Siemens Molecular Imaging   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; PHOSPHORS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNT (NEC) RATES; SCANNER GEOMETRY; SCATTER FRACTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844481854     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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