ECAT ART - A continuously rotating PET camera: Performance characteristics, initial clinical studies, and installation considerations in a nuclear medicine department

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 6-15

  Bailey, Dale L ^a   Young, Helen ^a   Bloomfield, Peter M ^a   Meikle, Steven R ^a   Glass, Daphne ^a   Myers, Melvyn J ^a   Spinks, Terence J ^a   Watson, Charles C ^b   Luk, Paul ^b   Peters, A Michael ^a   Jones, Terry ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CTI PET Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Partial ring scanner; Position emission tomography; Three dimensional image reconstruction

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; IRON 52; TRANSFERRIN;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PERFORMANCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; ROTATION; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 8044239628     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01728302     Document Type: Article

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