Characterization of a time-of-flight PET scanner based on lanthanum bromide

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 1919-1923

  Karp, J S ^a,b   Kuhn, A ^a,b   Perkins, A E ^a,c   Surti, S ^a,b   Werner, M E ^b   Daube Witherspoon, M E ^a,b   Popescu, L ^a,b   Vandenberghe, S ^c,d   Muehllehner, G ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PATIENTS; ENERGY RESOLUTION; LANTHANUM BROMIDE; PHANTOMS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PATIENT MONITORING; SCANNING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846616511     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596707     Document Type: Conference Paper

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