Development of the ProSPECTus semiconductor compton camera for medical imaging

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2452-2455

  Harkness, Laura ^a   Boston, Andrew ^a   Boston, Helen ^a   Cresswell, John ^a   Filmer, Fay ^a   Groves, Janet ^b   Headspith, Jon ^b   Kemp, Graham ^a   Lazarus, Ian ^b   Jones, Martin ^a   Judson, Daniel ^a   Nolan, Paul ^a   Sampson, Janet ^a   Scraggs, David ^a   Simpson, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compton camera; Geant4; Germanium; MRI; SPECT

Indexed keywords

COLLIMATED SINGLE PHOTON; COMPTON CAMERA; DESIGN FACTORS; DESIGN FEATURES; ELECTRONIC COLLIMATION; NEW SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MEDICAL IMAGING; POSITION RESOLUTION; SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY;

CAMERAS; GERMANIUM; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; TOMOGRAPHY;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951202456     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5402109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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