Development of an ultra-high resolution SPECT system with a CdTe semiconductor detector

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 763-770

  Ogawa, Koichi ^a   Ohmura, Naoka ^a   Iida, Hirokazu ^a   Nakamura, Kayoko ^b   Nakahara, Tadaki ^b   Kubo, Atsushi ^b  

^a HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Semiconductor detector; Small animal imaging; Spatial resolution; SPECT

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; TELLURIUM DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SEMICONDUCTORS; TELLURIUM; TEMPERATURE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 70350200886     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-009-0293-x     Document Type: Article

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