System design and development of a lower-cost animal PET-CT (MuPET) with large axial solid PET ring of 1.25-mm LYSO detectors

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2826-2830

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; COST ENGINEERING; DECODING; ELECTRONIC COOLING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL FIBERS; PELTIER EFFECT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; X RAY DETECTORS;

AXIAL FIELD OF VIEWS; DETECTION SENSITIVITY; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; SYSTEM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEM DESIGN AND ENGINEERINGS; TEMPERATURE CONTROLLERS; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79960327434     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5874310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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