Discrete scintillator coupled mercuric iodide photodetector arrays for breast imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 44, Issue 3 PART 2, 1997, Pages 1127-1133

  Tornai, Martin P ^a   Patt, Bradley E ^b   Iwanczyk, Jan S ^a   Levin, Craig S ^b   Hoffman, Edward J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Advanced Detectors Inc   (United States)

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EID: 0000667469     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.596976     Document Type: Article

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