The system design, engineering architecture, and preliminary results of a lower-cost high-sensitivity high-resolution positron emission mammography camera

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 1 PART 1, 2010, Pages 104-110

  Zhang, Yuxuan ^a   Ramirez, Rocio A ^a   Li, Hongdi ^a   Liu, Shitao ^a   An, Shaohui ^a   Wang, Chao ^a   Baghaei, Hossain ^a   Wong, Wai Hoi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Nuclear imaging; Nuclear medical applications; PET instrumentation

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL DECODING; CRYSTAL PACKINGS; DESIGN GOAL; DETECTOR MODULE; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-SENSITIVITY; HUMAN BODIES; MECHANICAL DESIGN; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNT RATES; NUCLEAR IMAGING; PEM DETECTORS; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; PHANTOM IMAGES; PLANAR DETECTORS; PMT-QUADRANT-SHARING; POINT SOURCES; POSITRON EMISSION MAMMOGRAPHY; RANDOM COINCIDENCES; SINGLE EVENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYSTEM DESIGN;

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; CRYSTALS; DESIGN; DETECTORS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTOELECTROMAGNETIC EFFECTS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS;

DECODING;

EID: 77950682730     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2031644     Document Type: Article

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