A comparison of five whole-body PET scanners by scanning Hoffman brain phantom

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 1973-1976

  Baghaei, Hossain ^a,b   Mawlawi, O ^b   Wang, Yu ^b   Li, Hongdi ^a,b   Ramirez, Rocio ^b   Kim, Soonseok ^b   Zhang, Yuxuan ^b   Pan, T ^b   Liu, Jiguo ^b   Liu, Shitao ^b   Wong, Wai Hoi ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

HOFFMAN BRAIN PHANTOM; IMAGE SLICES; TRANSMISSION DATA;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 38649098497     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354300     Document Type: Conference Paper

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