Evaluation of a EMCCD detector for emission-transmission computed tomography

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2495-2499

  Teo, B K ^b   Shestakova, I ^c   Sun, M ^b   Barber, W C ^b   Nagarkar, V V ^c   Hasegawa, B H ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge coupled device; Single photon emission computed tomography; X ray tomography

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MULTIPLYING CHARGED COUPLED DEVICE (EMCCD); PHANTOMS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY TOMOGRAPHY;

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SENSORS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTONS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 33750408058     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.882798     Document Type: Article

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