An MR compatible PET scanner based on RatCAP for small animal imaging at 9.4 T

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3679-3682

  Maramraju, S H ^a   Junnarkar, S ^c   Ravindranath, B ^a   Southekal, S ^a   Stoll, S ^c   Smith, S D ^c   Lenz, W ^c   Pratte, J F ^c   Purschke, M ^c   Rescia, S ^c   Krishnamoorthy, S ^a   Vaska, P ^c   Woody, C ^c   Schlyer, D ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER COATINGS; COREGISTRATION; FUNCTIONAL INFORMATION; IMPROVED SNR; IN-VIVO; MICRO-MRI; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MR IMAGES; MR-COMPATIBLE; PET SCANNER; RAT BRAIN; RAT CONSCIOUS ANIMAL PETS; RAT STRIATUM; RF COIL; SIMULTANEOUS ACQUISITION; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; TISSUE BOUNDARY; TOMOGRAPH; WHOLE BODY;

EDDY CURRENTS; MEDICAL IMAGING; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TOMOGRAPHY;

SCANNING;

EID: 67649232487     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774114     Document Type: Conference Paper

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