Performance evaluation of the LabPET™ APD-based digital PET scanner

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 4185-4191

  Bergeron, Mélanie ^a,b   Cadorette, Jules ^c   Beaudoin, Jean François ^c   Rousseau, Jacques A ^c   Dumoulin, Marc ^d   Lepage, Martin D ^d   Robert, Ghislain ^d   Selivanov, Vitali ^d   Tétrault, Marc André ^b   Viscogliosi, Nicolas ^b   Dumouchel, Tyler ^e   Thorn, Stephanie ^e   DaSilva, Jean ^e   DeKemp, Robert A ^e   Norenberg, Jeffrey P ^f   Fontaine, Réjean ^a,b   Lecomte, Roger ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^d Gamma Medica Ideas   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING;

AVALANCHE PHOTO DIODE (APD); COARSE TIMINGS; CRYSTAL IDENTIFICATION; GENOMIC IMAGING; IMAGING CAPABILITIES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; STATE OF THE ART; TIMING RESOLUTIONS;

MOLECULAR IMAGING;

EID: 45849123778     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4437041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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