Evaluation of a MR-compatible CZT detector

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 4324-4326

  Despiés, Philippe ^a   Izaguirre, Enrique W ^b   Liu, Siyuan ^b   Cirignano, Leonard J ^c   Kim, Hadong ^c   Wendland, Michael F ^b   Shah, Kanai S ^c   Hasegawa, Bruce H ^b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDZNTE (CZT); FUNCTIONAL INFORMATION; IMAGING MODALITIES; MR-COMPATIBLE; MULTI-MODALITY IMAGES; NONIONIZING; NUCLEAR SCIENCES; PHOTO-MULTIPLIER TUBES; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE; ROOM TEMPERATURES; SOFT TISSUES; SOLID-STATE DETECTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION SR); SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; RESONANCE; SECURITY OF DATA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; Z TRANSFORMS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 48149106919     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4437072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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