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Patient motion is well-known for degrading image quality during medical imaging. Especially positron emission tomography (PET) is susceptible to motion due to its usually long scan times. In hybrid PET/MRI (magnetic resonance imaging),…
Five contemporary technologies are discussed in the context of their potential roles in particle tracking for future high energy physics applications. These include sensors of the 3D configuration, in both diamond and silicon,…
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