Interference between PET and MRI sub-systems in a silicon-photomultiplier- based PET/MRI system

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 4147-4159

  Yamamoto, Seiichi ^a   Watabe, Hiroshi ^b   Kanai, Yasukazu ^b   Aoki, Masaaki ^c   Sugiyama, Eiji ^c   Watabe, Tadashi ^b   Imaizumi, Masao ^b   Shimosegawa, Eku ^b   Hatazawa, Jun ^b  

^a KOBE CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Neomax Engineering   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUNT RATES; DELAYED COINCIDENCE; ELECTRONIC NOISE; HIGH GAIN; LOW SENSITIVITY; LOWER ENERGIES; MR IMAGES; OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE; PET DETECTORS; PULSE HEIGHT; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; RF COIL; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SMALL SIZE; STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS; SUB-SYSTEMS; SUSCEPTIBILITY ARTIFACTS;

MAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SILICON;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACTS; LIGHT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SILICON;

EID: 79960351814     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/13/026     Document Type: Article

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