Investigation of a high-resolution detector for whole-body PET imaging

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1601-1605

  Surti, Suleman ^a,b   Kuhn, Austin ^b   Karp, Joel S ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL DETECTORS; LIGHT SHARING DETECTORS; POSITIONING ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ALGORITHMS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT MODULATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS; SCANNING;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 33846647829     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596625     Document Type: Conference Paper

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