Potential for a fifth generation PET scanner for oncology

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 1996-2000

  Eriksson, L ^a,b   Townsend, D ^a,c   Eriksson, M ^b   Casey, M E ^a,d   Schmand, M ^a,d   Conti, M ^d   Michel, C ^a,d   Melcher, C L ^a,d,g   Bendriem, B ^a,d   Bohm, C ^a,e   Jones, T ^f   Nutt, R ^d  

^a IEEE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PET SCANNERS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL SAMPLING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS;

EID: 33846583744     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596724     Document Type: Conference Paper

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