Basic evaluation of a C-shaped breast PET scanner

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2548-2552

  Furuta, Masafumi ^a   Kitamura, Keishi ^a   Ohi, Junichi ^a   Tonami, Hiromichi ^a   Yamada, Yoshihiro ^a   Furumiya, Tetsuo ^a   Satoh, Masanobu ^a   Tsuda, Tomoaki ^a   Nakazawa, Masayuki ^a   Hashizume, Nobuya ^a   Yamakawa, Yoshiyuki ^a   Kawashima, Ayako ^a   Kumazawa, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION TIME; BREAST CANCER; C-SHAPED; COUNT RATES; CRYSTAL ARRAYS; CRYSTAL ELEMENTS; DEPTH-OF-INTERACTION DETECTORS; DETECTOR MODULE; LARGE EFFECTIVE; LIGHT GUIDES; PET SCANNER; POSITION SENSITIVE PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS; RING CONFIGURATION; SMALL LESIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

DATA STRUCTURES; DETECTORS; GADOLINIUM; IMAGE QUALITY; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCANNING; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951192958     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5402027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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