Small animal PET camera design based on 2-mm straw detectors

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 2462-2468

  Shehad, Nader N ^a,b   Athanasiades, Athanasios ^a,b   Martin, Christopher S ^b   Sun, Liang ^a,b   Lacy, Jeffrey L ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b PROPORTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ERROR ANALYSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DETECTORS;

AXIAL SENSITIVITY; SINGLE ORGAN IMAGING;

ANIMALS;

EID: 38649140504     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354410     Document Type: Conference Paper

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