A nuclear radiation detector system with integrated readout for SPECT/MR small animal imaging

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 2311-2317

  Azman, Suleyman ^d   Gjærum, Jon ^d   Meier, Dirk ^a,d   Muftuler, L Tugan ^a,b   Mæhlum, Gunnar ^a,d   Nalcioglu, Orhan ^a,b   Patt, Bradley E ^a,d   Sundal, Bjørn ^a,d   Szawlowski, Marek ^a,d   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a,c   Wagenaar, Douglas J ^a,d   Wang, Yuchuang ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Gamma Medica Ideas ^*

Author keywords

Cadmium zinc telluride; CdZnTe; CZT; Magnetic resonance (MR); Molecular imaging; Multi modality imaging; Radiation imaging module; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM ZINC TELLURIDE; CDZNTE; CZT; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MULTI-MODALITY IMAGING; RADIATION IMAGING MODULE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ATOMS; CADMIUM; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; RESONANCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; Z TRANSFORMS; ZINC;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 48349122218     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436608     Document Type: Conference Paper

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