Performance of a high sensitivity PET scanner based on LSO panel detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1136-1142

  Conti, M ^a   Bendriem, B ^a   Casey, M ^a   Eriksson, L ^a,b   Jakoby, B ^a,c   Jones, W F ^a   Jones, J ^a   Michel, C ^a   Nahmias, C ^a,d   Panin, V ^a   Rappoport, V ^a   Sibomana, M ^a   Townsend, D W ^a,d  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Lutetium oxyorthosilicate (LSO); Panel detector; Positron emission tomography (PET); Whole body

Indexed keywords

LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE (LSO); NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNT RATE (NEC); PANEL DETECTOR; POISSON ORDERED SUBSET EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION 3D ALGORITHM (OP-OSEM3D); WHOLE BODY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33746376294     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.875153     Document Type: Article

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