Imaging performance of the LabPET™ APD-based digital PET scanner

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3841-3845

  Bergeron, Mélanie ^a   Cadorette, Jules ^b   Beaudoin, Jean François ^b   Tétrault, Marc André ^a   Viscogliosi, Nicolas ^a   Selivanov, Vitali ^c   Lepage, Martin D ^c   Robert, Ghislain ^c   Norenberg, Jeffrey P ^d   Fontaine, Réjean ^a   Lecomte, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c Gamma Medica Ideas   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL LENGTH; COUNT RATES; DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE; ENERGY WINDOWS; HOT SPOT; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; IN-VIVO; LYSO CRYSTALS; MICRO HOT SPOTS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE PHANTOMS; PET SCANNER; PHOSWICH; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; RECOVERY COEFFICIENTS; SCATTER FRACTIONS; SMALL ANIMAL; TIMING ALIGNMENT; TIMING RESOLUTIONS;

ANIMALS; TIME MEASUREMENT; WINDOWS;

SCANNING;

EID: 67649188933     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774119     Document Type: Conference Paper

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