Recent advances and future advances in time-of-flight PET

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 580, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 919-924

  Moses, William W ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; PEM camera design and optimization; Positron emission mammography

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BREAST CANCER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STATISTICAL NOISE VARIANCE;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34548503918     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2007.06.038     Document Type: Article

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