Gated listmode acquisition with the QuadHIDAC animal PET to image mouse hearts

Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Physik

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 60-66

  Schäfers, Klaus P ^a   Lars, Norbert ^a   Stegger, Lars ^a   Schober, Otmar ^a   Schäfers, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal PET; Cardiac gating; Listmode; Respiratory gating

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GATED IMAGING; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33646439397     PISSN: 09393889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0939-3889-00292     Document Type: Article

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