Towards sub-minute PET examination times

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 58, Issue 1 PART 1, 2011, Pages 76-81

  Eriksson, L ^a,b,c,d   Conti, M ^a,b   Melcher, C L ^a,b   Townsend, D W ^e,f   Eriksson, M ^a   Rothfuss, H ^a,b   Casey, M E ^a,b   Bendriem, B ^a,b  

^a Siemens Molecular Imaging   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Molecular imaging; positron emission tomography (PET); time of flight imaging (TOF)

Indexed keywords

AXIAL FIELD; CO-DOPING; COUNT RATES; CRYSTAL THICKNESS; CYLINDRICAL DETECTORS; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; DETECTOR ARRAYS; DETECTOR BLOCKS; LIGHT OUTPUT; LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE; LYSO:CE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MULTIRING; PACKING FRACTIONS; PATIENT DOSE; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; POSITRON CAMERA; POSITRON EMISSION; QUALITY IMAGE; RING SYSTEMS; SCINTILLATION DECAY TIME; SCINTILLATION MATERIALS; SENSITIVITY INCREASE; SIEMENS; SOLID ANGLE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STOPPING POWER; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIME RESOLUTION; TIME-OF-FLIGHT IMAGING (TOF); TIMING RESOLUTIONS;

CAMERAS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; ELECTRONS; IMAGE QUALITY; POSITRONS; SCINTILLATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79951681724     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2096542     Document Type: Article

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