Performance comparison of two commercial small animal PET scanners: ClearPETTM and rPET-1TM

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4773-4779

  Cañadas, Mario ^a   Embid, Miguel ^a   Lage, Eduardo ^b   Desco, Manuel ^b   Vaquero, Juan José ^b   Pérez, José Manuel ^a  

^a CIEMAT   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL FIELD OF VIEWS; CLEARPET; MADRID , SPAIN; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; PET SCANNER; RING DETECTOR; SCATTER FRACTIONS; SMALL ANIMAL; SMALL ANIMAL PET SCANNERS; SMALL VARIATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THREE AXES; TRANSVERSE AXIS;

DETECTORS; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 67649180442     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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