Design study of a high-resolution breast-dedicated PET system built from cadmium zinc telluride detectors

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 3700-3704

  Hao, Peng ^a,b   Olcott, P D ^b   Pratx, G ^b   Foudray, A M K ^b   Chinn, G ^b   Levin, C S ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXILLARY NODES; BREAST IMAGING; CADMIUM ZINC TELLURIDE DETECTORS; CADMIUM ZINC TELLURIDES; DESIGN STUDIES; DUAL PANELS; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS; POSITRON EMISSIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; SYSTEM PERFORMANCES;

CADMIUM; CADMIUM ALLOYS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; PHOTONS; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; Z TRANSFORMS; ZINC;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 48349088426     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436925     Document Type: Conference Paper

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