SPECT detectors: The Anger Camera and beyond

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Peterson, Todd E ^a   Furenlid, Lars R ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS; ANGER CAMERA; COMPUTING POWER; DETECTOR SIGNALS; DETECTOR SYSTEMS; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; ESTIMATION SCHEMES; GAMMA RAY INTERACTIONS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE IMAGING; PERFORMANCE PROPERTIES; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE; PRACTICAL ISSUES; SCINTILLATOR CRYSTALS; SODIUM IODIDES; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SURVEY DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES;

CAMERAS; GAMMA RAYS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCINTILLATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SODIUM; TOMOGRAPHY;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; RADIATION MONITORING; REVIEW; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SCINTISCANNING; SEMICONDUCTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SEMICONDUCTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052073056     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/17/R01     Document Type: Review

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