Design and performance of a new SPECT detector for multimodality small animal imaging platforms

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 3008-3011

  Austin, Derek W ^b   Paulus, Michael J ^b   Gleason, Shaun S ^a,b   Mintzer, Robert A ^a,b   Siegel, Stefan B ^a,b   Figueroa, Said D ^c   Hoffman, Timothy J ^c   Wall, Jonathan S ^d  

^a IEEE

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ISOTOPES; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

MULTIMODALITY PRECLINICAL IMAGING SYSTEMS; SIEMENS (CO);

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 38549121780     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.356508     Document Type: Conference Paper

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