3D Continuous Emission and Spiral Transmission scanning for high-throughput whole-body PET

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 2801-2805

  Kitamura, Keishi ^a   Takahashi, Shigekazu ^b   Tanaka, Aya ^b   Ishikawa, Akihiro ^a   Mizuta, Tetsuro ^a   Tanaka, Kazumi ^a   Amano, Masaharu ^a   Matsumoto, Keiichi ^d   Yamamoto, Seiichi ^c   Nakamoto, Yuji ^d   Sakamoto, Setsu ^d   Senda, Michio ^d  

^a SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Shimadzu SD Corporation   (Japan)

^c KOBE CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D CONTINUOUS EMISSION; PHOTON SOURCES FLUX; SIMULTANEOUS EMISSION AND TRANSMISSION (SET); SPIRAL TRANSMISSION SCANNING;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHOTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844484417     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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