Construction and evaluation of a prototype high resolution, silicon photomultiplier-based, tandem positron emission tomography system

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 82-86

  Stolin, Alexander V ^a   Majewski, Stan ^a   Jaliparthi, Gangadhar ^a   Raylman, Raymond R ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

High resolution; nuclear medicine imaging; PET instrumentation

Indexed keywords

AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; CLINICAL APPLICATION; DETECTION SENSITIVITY; FIELD OF VIEWS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; MEASUREMENTS OF; NUCLEAR MEDICINE IMAGING; PET IMAGES; PET IMAGING; PET SCANNER; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; SCINTILLATOR ARRAYS; SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER; SMALL DETECTORS; SMALL REGION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECIFIC TASKS; TRANSAXIAL;

ALGORITHMS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING; SILICON;

DETECTORS;

EID: 84873722150     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2013.2237788     Document Type: Article

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