A high-throughput whole-body PET scanner using flat panel PS-PMTs

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3 II, 2004, Pages 796-800

  Watanabe, M ^a   Shimizu, K ^a   Omura, T ^a   Sato, N ^a   Takahashi, M ^a   Kosugi, T ^a   Ote, K ^a   Katabe, A ^a   Yamada, R ^a   Yamashita, T ^a   Tanaka, E ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

High throughput; Position sensitive PMT; Positron emission tomography (PET); Whole body scan

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LEAD COMPOUNDS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SCANNING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

HIGH-THROUGHPUT; POSITION SENSITIVE PMT; WHOLE BODY SCAN;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 3342980729     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.829787     Document Type: Article

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