Introduction to neutron stimulated emission computed tomography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 3375-3390

  Floyd Jr , Carey E ^a   Bender, Janelle E ^a   Sharma, Amy C ^a   Kapadia, Anuj ^a   Xia, Jessie ^a   Harrawood, Brian ^b   Tourassi, Georgia D ^b   Lo, Joseph Y ^b   Crowell, Alexander ^c   Howell, Calvin ^c  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TRIANGLE UNIVERSITIES NUCLEAR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEUTRON BEAMS; NEUTRON EMISSION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

GAMMA EMISSION; GAMMA SPECTROMETERS; NEUTRON STIMULATED EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (NSECT); TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; GAMMA RADIATION; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; GEOMETRY; ILLUMINATION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NEUTRON STIMULATED EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROMETER; SPECTROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NEOPLASMS; NEUTRONS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 33745858711     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/14/006     Document Type: Article

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