Design and evaluation of the clear-PEM scanner for positron emission mammography

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-77

  Abreu, Maria C ^b   Aguiar, João D ^c   Almeida, Fernando G ^c,d   Almeida, Pedro ^e   Bento, Pedro ^f   Carriço, Bruno ^b   Ferreira, Miguel ^g   Ferreira, Nuno C ⁱ   Gonçalves, Fernando ^f,h   Leong, Carlos ^f   Lopes, Filipe ^c   Lousã, Pedro ^f   Martins, Mónica V ^a,e   Matela, Nuno ^a,e   Mendes, Pedro R ^a,b   Moura, Rui ^g   Nobre, João ^f   Oliveira, Nuno ^e   Ortigão, Catarina ^g   Peralta, Luís ^e,g   Pereira, Rui ^b   Rego, Joel ^f   Ribeiro, Rui ^c,d,g   Rodrigues, Pedro ^g   Sampaio, José ^c   Santos, Ana I ^j   Silva, Luís ^f   Silva, José C ^g   Sousa, Patrick ^b   Teixeira, Isabel C ^f,h   Teixeira, João P ^f,h   Trindade, Andreia ^g   Varela, João ^g,h,k   more..

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^f INESC ID   (Portugal)

^g LABORATÓRIO DE INSTRUMENTAÇÃO E FÍSICA EXPERIMENTAL DE PARTÍCULAS   (Portugal)

^h INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^j HOSPITAL GARCIA DE ORTA   (Portugal)

^k CERN   (Switzerland)

more..

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiodes; Biomedical imaging; Gamma ray detectors; Image reconstruction; Positron emission mammography; Positron emission tomography; Simulation software

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; DATA ACQUISITION; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DETECTORS; SCANNING;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; GAMMA-RAY DETECTORS; POSITRON EMISSION MAMMOGRAPHY; SIMULATION SOFTWARE;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33645653260     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.870173     Document Type: Article

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