Simultaneous imaging using Si-PM-based PET and MRI for development of an integrated PET/MRI system

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

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

^a KOBE CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Neomax Engineering   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG SIGNALS; COUNT RATES; DEPTH OF INTERACTIONS; HIGH GAIN; MRI IMAGE; PET DETECTORS; PET IMAGES; RADIO FREQUENCY COILS; RAT BRAIN; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER; SIMULTANEOUS IMAGING; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; SMALL ANIMAL; STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS;

ANIMALS; DEGRADATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SILICON;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

SILICON;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RAT; SCINTISCANNING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TIME;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS; SILICON; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84855611120     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/2/N1     Document Type: Article

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