Neutron stimulated emission computed tomography: Background corrections

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 254, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 329-336

  Floyd Jr , Carey E ^a,b,c   Sharma, Amy C ^a,b   Bender, Janelle E ^a,b   Kapadia, Anuj J ^a,b   Xia, Jessie Q ^a,b   Harrawood, Brian P ^b   Tourassi, Georgia D ^b   Lo, Joseph Y ^a,b,c   Kiser, Matthew R ^d   Crowell, Alexander S ^d   Pedroni, Ronald S ^e   Macri, Robert A ^g   Tajima, Shigeyuki ^f   Howell, Calvin R ^c,d  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TRIANGLE UNIVERSITIES NUCLEAR LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f University of Virginia   (United States)

^g LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Background corrections; Biomedical imaging; Gamma ray spectroscopy; Image quality; Neutrons

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEUTRON BEAMS; STIMULATED EMISSION;

BACKGROUND CORRECTIONS; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; GAMMA-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 33846304694     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2006.11.098     Document Type: Article

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