PET physics and instrumentation

Functional Cerebral SPECT and PET Imaging: Fourth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 23-32

  Esser, Peter D ^a,b  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

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