Recent developments in PET detector technology

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Lewellen, Tom K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DETECTORS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; HEALTH; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PLASTIC BOTTLES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; SOLID STATE DEVICES; TECHNOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

APPLICATIONS.; CLINICAL STUDIES; DETECTOR MODULES; FAST TIMING; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS; HIGH SENSITIVITIES; METABOLIC IMAGING; PET DETECTORS; PET SCANNERS; PET/CT SCANNERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); PROTOTYPE DETECTORS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SCANNER SYSTEMS; VERY HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WIRE CHAMBERS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LIGHT; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SILICON; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 51849109068     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/17/R01     Document Type: Review

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