Characteristics of the PET component of a dedicated breast PET/CT scanner prototype

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 2335-2339

  Wu, Yibao ^a   Yang, Kai ^a   Packard, Nathan ^a   Fu, Lin ^a   Stickel, Jennifer ^b   Tran, Vi Hoa ^c   Qi, Jinyi ^a   Boone, John M ^b   Cherry, Simon R ^a   Badawi, Ramsey D ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; SCANNING;

SCANNER PROTOTYPE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 38649120875     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354382     Document Type: Conference Paper

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