The engineering and initial results of a transformable low-cost high-resolution PET camera

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1583-1588

  Li, Hongdi ^a,b   Wong, Wai Hoi ^a,b   Baghaei, Hossain ^a,b   Uribe, Jorge ^a,b   Wang, Yu ^a,b   Zhang, Yuxuan ^b   Kim, Soonseok ^b   Ramirez, Rocio ^b   Liu, Jiguo ^b   Liu, Shitao ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

High resolution; Low cost; Positron emission to mography (PET); Transformable

Indexed keywords

FRONT END ELECTRONICS; IMAGING CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSFORMABLE LOW COST HIGH RESOLUTION PET CAMERAS;

CAMERAS; IMAGE SENSORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 35349024397     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2007.905156     Document Type: Article

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