Performance evaluation of the fully engineered YAP-(S)PET scanner for small animal imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1078-1083

  Del Guerra, Alberto ^a,b   Bartoli, Antonietta ^b   Belcari, Nicola ^b   Herbert, Deborah ^b   Motta, Alfonso ^b   Vaiano, Angela ^b   Di Domenico, Giovanni ^c   Sabba, Nicola ^c   Moretti, Elena ^c   Zavattini, Guido ^c   Lazzarotti, Marco ^d   Sensi, Luca ^d   Larobina, Michele ^e   Uccelli, Licia ^c  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^d ISE Ingegneria dei Sistemi Elettronici srl   (Italy)

^e CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Molecular imaging; Positron emission tomography (PET); Single photon emission tomography; Small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR IMAGING; POSITION SENSITIVE PHOTOMULTIPLIER (PS-PMT); SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCANNING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SWITCHING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33746379078     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.871900     Document Type: Article

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