Comparative study of scintillators for PET/CT detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-10

  Nassalski, A ^a,b   Kapusta, M ^a,b   Batsch, T ^b   Wolski, D ^b   Mockel D ^c   Enghardt, W ^c   Moszynski M ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Poland)

^b SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image analysis and processing; NMIS; PET instrumentation; Reconstruction algorithms

Indexed keywords

ENERGY RESOLUTION; PET INSTRUMENTATION; PULSING MODE; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SCANNING;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 33847755059     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.890013     Document Type: Article

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