The promise of nuclear medicine technology: Status and future perspective of high-resolution whole-body PET

Physica Medica

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 57-62

  Schäfers, Klaus P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

High resolution PET; Whole body PET

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SIMULATION; WHOLE BODY PET;

BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 44649163350     PISSN: 11201797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2008.01.008     Document Type: Article

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