Development of an ultrahigh resolution Si-PM based PET system for small animals

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 7875-7888

  Yamamoto, Seiichi ^a   Watabe, Hiroshi ^b   Kanai, Yasukazu ^c   Watabe, Tadashi ^c   Kato, Katsuhiko ^a   Hatazawa, Jun ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION PET; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; SMALL ANIMAL PET; SMALL ANIMAL STUDY; ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION;

MAMMALS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; OPTICAL FIBERS; PIXELS; SILICON;

DETECTORS;

SILICONE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOUSE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SILICONES;

EID: 84887045973     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/21/7875     Document Type: Article

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