Performance evaluation and optimization of the MiniPET-II scanner

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 707, Issue , 2013, Pages 26-34

  Lajtos, Imre ^a   Emri, Miklos ^a   Kis, Sandor A ^a   Opposits, Gabor ^a   Potari, Norbert ^a   Kiraly, Beata ^b   Nagy, Ferenc ^b   Tron, Lajos ^a   Balkay, Laszlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Coincidence time window; Image quality; NEMA; Preclinical imaging; Small animal PET scanner

Indexed keywords

AXIAL FIELD OF VIEWS; COUNT RATES; DETECTOR MODULE; ENERGY WINDOWS; IMAGING CAPABILITIES; INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT; INNER RINGS; LOW THRESHOLDS; MOUSE PHANTOMS; NEMA; NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNT RATES; NUMERICAL VALUES; PEAK VALUES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; POINT SOURCES; RECOVERY COEFFICIENTS; SCATTER FRACTIONS; SCINTILLATOR CRYSTALS; SMALL ANIMAL; SMALL ANIMAL PET; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME WINDOWS;

IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTIMIZATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

SCANNING;

EID: 84872810380     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2012.12.079     Document Type: Article

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