Evaluation of transmission methodology for the microPET focus 220 animal scanner

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 2519-2523

  Lehnert, Wencke ^b,c   Meikle, Steven R ^a,c   Siegel, Stefan ^a,d   Bailey, David ^a,d   Banati, Richard ^c   Rosenfeld, Anatoly B ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d CTI/Concorde ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL SCANNERS; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; TRANSMISSION SCANNING; TRANSMISSION SEGMENTATION;

ATTENUATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVE PROPAGATION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846591015     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596852     Document Type: Conference Paper

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