A method for measuring the energy spectrum of coincidence events in positron emission tomography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 535-549

  Goertzen, Andrew L ^a   Stout, David B ^b   Thompson, Christopher J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COINCIDENCE MODE; DETECTION MODE; ENERGY COMPONENTS; ENERGY SPECTRA; ENERGY WINDOWS; INTRINSIC ACTIVITIES; LINE SOURCES; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; LSO SCINTILLATOR; MEASURED DATA; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MICROPET; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; OPTIMIZING ENERGY; PET CAMERA; POSITRON EMISSION; SCATTER MODEL; SCATTERING PROBABILITIES; SIEMENS; SIMULATION MODEL; SYSTEM ENERGY;

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATORS; ELECTRONS; GERMANIUM; ISOTOPES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRONS; SPECTROSCOPY;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GERMANIUM; LUTETIUM; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RADIOISOTOPE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA CAMERAS; GERMANIUM; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LINEAR MODELS; LUTETIUM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 74549173178     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/2/013     Document Type: Article

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