ALBIRA: A small animal PETSPECTCT imaging system

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Sanchez F ^a   Orero, A ^a   Soriano, A ^a   Correcher, C ^b   Conde, P ^c   Gonzalez A ^a   Hernandez L ^a   Moliner, L ^a   Rodriguez Alvarez M J ^a   Vidal, L F ^a   Benlloch, J M ^a   Chapman, S E ^c   Leevy, W M ^c  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

^c Department of Biological Sciences Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Facility   (United States)

Author keywords

integrated PETSPECTCT scanner; nuclear medicine; radionuclide imaging; small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CESIUM IODIDE; CRYSTALS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; X RAY DETECTORS; X RAY TUBES; X RAYS;

FLAT-PANEL X-RAY DETECTOR; INTEGRATED PETSPECTCT SCANNER; MULTI-ANODE PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBES; MULTI-PINHOLE COLLIMATORS; ORDERED SUBSET EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FILTRATION; GAMMA RADIATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PET SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPECT SCANNER; X RAY TUBE; ANIMAL; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; RAT; EQUIPMENT;

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84877291610     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4800798     Document Type: Article

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