Initial performance evaluation of a high resolution Albira small animal positron emission tomography scanner with monolithic crystals and depth-of-interaction encoding from a user's perspective

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Balcerzyk, Marcin ^a   Kontaxakis, George ^b,c   Delgado, Mercedes ^a   Garcia Garcia, Luis ^a   Correcher, Carlos ^d   Gonzalez, Antonio J ^d   Gonzalez, Aurora ^b   Rubio, Jose L ^b,c   Benlloch, Jose M ^e   Pozo, Miguel A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO PLURIDISCIPLINAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Instrumentation; Ischemia; Performance measurement; Small animal imaging; Small animal PET

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMALS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRONS; SCANNING;

INSTRUMENTATION; ISCHEMIA; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; SMALL ANIMAL PET;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 70350643853     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/20/10/104011     Document Type: Article

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