PET performance evaluation of an MR-compatible PET insert

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 574-580

  Wu, Yibao ^a   Catana, Ciprian ^b   Farrell, Richard ^c   Dokhale, Purushottam A ^c   Shah, Kanai S ^c   Qi, Jinyi ^a   Cherry, Simon R ^a  

^a Davis   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiodes; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

COUNTING RATES; DATA ACQUISITION ELECTRONICS; DEAD TIME; ENERGY WINDOWS; FIELD OF VIEWS; FRONT END ELECTRONIC; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; LINE SOURCES; LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE; MR-COMPATIBLE; MRI SCANNERS; NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNT RATES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PHOTOPEAK ENERGY; POSITION SENSITIVE; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; RF COIL; SCATTER FRACTIONS; SCINTILLATOR ARRAYS; SIMULATION PREDICTION; SMALL ANIMAL;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; LUTETIUM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODIODES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRONS; SCANNING; THREE TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS; WINDOWS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 67649197596     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2015448     Document Type: Article

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