Neutron stimulated emission computed tomography of stable isotopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5368, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 248-254

  Floyd Jr , Carey E ^a,b   Howell, Calvin ^a   Harrawood, Brian ^a   Crowell, Alexander ^a   Kapadia, Anuj ^b   Macri, Robert ^a   Xia, Jessie ^b   Pedroni, Ronald ^c   Bowsher, James ^a   Kiser, Mathew ^a   Tourassi, Georgia ^a   Tornow, Werner ^a   Walter, Richard ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging; Neutrons; Spectroscopy; Tomography

Indexed keywords

EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (ECT); ENERGY SPECTRA; IMAGE VOXELS; INELASTIC SCATTERING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ISOTOPES; NEUTRONS; SCATTERING; STIMULATED EMISSION; TRACE ELEMENTS; TUMORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 3042591241     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.535350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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