Development of a combined microPET®-MR system

Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 337-341

  Lucas, A J ^a,b   Hawkes, R C ^a   Ansorge, R E ^b   Williams, G B ^a   Nutt, R E ^c   Clark, J C ^a   Fryer, T D ^a   Carpenter, T A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

And Multimodality imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; MRI; PET; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAGNETIC FIELD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33748044327     PISSN: 15330346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153303460600500405     Document Type: Article

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