Johnson, 2013 - Google Patents
Development of a Small-Animal SPECT System with a High-Purity Germanium DetectorJohnson, 2013
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- Johnson L
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Advantages of high-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors over traditional scintillator detectors include excellent energy resolution, approximately 1% at 140 keV, which allows for better scatter rejection and simple multi-isotope acquisitions, and depth of interaction estimation …
- 238000002603 single-photon emission computed tomography 0 title abstract description 120
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- G01T1/16—Measuring radiation intensity
- G01T1/161—Application in the field of nuclear medicine, e.g. in vivo counting
- G01T1/164—Scintigraphy
- G01T1/1641—Static instruments for imaging the distribution of radioactivity in one or two dimensions using one or several scintillating elements; Radio-isotope cameras
- G01T1/1648—Ancillary equipment for scintillation cameras, e.g. reference markers, devices for removing motion artifacts, calibration devices
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- G01T1/2985—In depth localisation, e.g. using positron emitters; Tomographic imaging (longitudinal and transverse section imaging; apparatus for radiation diagnosis sequentially in different planes, steroscopic radiation diagnosis)
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