Positron Emission Tomography

Cardiac CT, PET and MR: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-29

  Bacharach, Stephen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

2D versus 3D PET scanners; Deadtime quantitatively accurate PET studies, true coincidences directly proportional to radioactivity concentration; Instrumentation, imaging techniques and protocols; PET camera, electronic circuits distinguishing coincidences from possible pair of detectors; PET scanners, detecting pairs of gamma rays from annihilation; PET scanners, simultaneously obtaining views in tomographic image reconstruction with use of ring; Positron decay PET tracers, positron emission decay; Positron emission tomography (PET); Positron energies and ranges in tissue; Second factor, when evaluating radioisotope energy of positron emitted

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859617261     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444323894.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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