Event localization in a continuous scintillation detector using digital processing

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 550-555

  Karp, Joel S ^a   Muehllehner, Gerd ^a   Beerbohm, Daniel ^a   Mankoff, David ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 0001181001     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.1986.4337163     Document Type: Article

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