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The design of an animal PET: flexible geometry for achieving optimal spatial resolution or high sensitivity

Weber et al., 2002

Document ID
10765969847678009479
Author
Weber S
Terstegge A
Herzog H
Reinartz R
Reinhart P
Rongen F
Muller-Garmer H
Halling H
Publication year
Publication venue
IEEE transactions on medical imaging

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Presents the design of a positron emission tomograph (PET) with flexible geometry dedicated to in vivo studies of small animals (TierPET). The scanner uses two pairs of detectors. Each detector consists of 400 small individual yttrium aluminum perovskite (YAP) …
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