Engineering and performance (NEMA and animal) of a lower-cost higher-resolution animal PET/CT scanner using photomultiplier-quadrant-sharing detectors

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1786-1793

  Wong, Wai Hoi ^a   Li, Hongdi ^a   Baghaei, Hossain ^a   Zhang, Yuxuan ^a   Ramirez, Rocio A ^a   Liu, Shitao ^a   Wang, Chao ^a   An, Shaohui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Molecular imaging; MuPET; Performance evaluation; PET instrumentation; Small animal PET camera

Indexed keywords

LUTETIUM; YTTRIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAMERA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HARDER GLAND; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHANTOM; PHOTOMULTIPLIER QUADRANT SHARING DETECTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ENGINEERING; MICE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOCIETIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84868336894     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.112.103507     Document Type: Article

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